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echo: virus_info
to: JULIAN YAP
from: TODD COPELAND
date: 1997-01-23 18:27:00
subject: VIRUS GOOD-TIMES

JY-> JD> please stop posting message about the good times virus this virus is
  -> JD> not a virus because it does NOT EXIST.
  ->That's right, it's a hoax.
JY-> JD> getting a virus reading a message is IMPOSSIBLE
  ->I wouldn't say that.  You can imbed a virus into a Windows Write file and
  ->say to the user to double click on the icon.  Not very hard to do.
JD's statement is correct. If a macro is executed by Word then more then
reading a message is being done. Simply reading the document CANNOT
activate a virus.
It's the same thing with computer code. Reading it will not activate a
virus but launching it will.
 * OLX 2.1 * Todd Copeland  -  TEAM OS/2
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