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echo: virus_info
to: KURT WISMER
from: JULIAN YAP
date: 1997-02-08 01:16:00
subject: Re: VIRUS GOOD-TIMES

 -=> Quoting Kurt Wismer to Julian Yap <=-
 JD> getting a virus reading a message is IMPOSSIBLE
 
 JY> I wouldn't say that.  You can imbed a virus into a Windows Write file
 JY> and say to the user to double click on the icon.  Not very hard to do.
 KW> perhaps, but something more than just "reading" has to occur in this
 KW> circumstance... the computer has to extract the virus, and execute
 KW> it... 
How about the AUTOOPEN and various other auto-exec macros in Word?  Would
you consider that just "reading".  In fact, you do not even need an auto-
exec macro in Word to activate a macro virus.
... What a stupid tagline.
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