-=> Mocking Evert Clonen to Jos Callewaert <=-
   
 
 JC> I recieve an e-mail warning me for the "win a holliday"
 JC> virus. Anybody heard from it yet ?
 EC> Yep, don't know what it does, but the guys and girls at M$ found it
 EC> neccessary to tell all their customers there was a virus you could get
 EC> by recieving E-mail.  I don't think so, you can only get a virus by
 EC> exicuting a program, not by reading a txt-file.  (OK, you can get a
 EC> cap-virus,  you know that word  virus, but only if you use word as a
 EC> E-mail reader.) 
and only if you use it to open an infected attachment... even cap and
other word macro viruses can't be gotten simply by reading regular
email because regular email channels only allow text and those macro
viruses would become corrupted garbage if sent through regular email...
... Internet: Where Monty Python replaces brevity as the soul of wit...
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