beware....just because you haven't been hit, doesn't mean there's
not a virus out there with your name on it:)
johnt
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>>>>> "Ron" == Ron Force <rforce@belle.lib.uidaho.edu> writes:
> You can almost always spot a hoax when it says an e-mail message
> or a "cookie" will erase your hard drive or do other unspeakable
> things to your computer. This is impossible. The only way you
> can contract a virus from e-mail is to open an attachment.
> Microsoft Word macro viruses can play hob with your Word files,
> but it can't attack the rest of the system. There are free
> virus scanners that should be used on suspicious attachments.
> Or for that matter, on some not so suspicious--a recent
> candidate for a position at UI sent their resume as an
> attachment. Unfortunately, it containied a macro virus, and was
> spread to the entire search committee, not the impression one
> wants to make.
> Before passing on a warning chain letter, check with the
> International Computer Security Association web site
> (www.ncsa.com), or do an internet search using Alta Vista or one
> of the other search engines. Most of these virus warnings and
> other chain letter hoaxes just go round and round, again and
> again.
> Sam Scripter wrote:
>> Saturday, 1-28-98
>>
>> John Teeter, I hope you read this and can answer my question.
>> Or maybe someone else on the list knows.
>>
>> I get so tired of these mass virus warnings that go around,
>> that are flukes, that are false.
>>
>> But they always get me worried that maybe there is something
>> new that I don't know. They raise enough doubt in my mind that
>> I have to ask.
>>
>> That below asserts that by reading one's mail a "Trojan horse"
>> virus will be introduced into the boot sector of one's hard
>> drive, and wipe it out.
>>
>> I thought that was not possible, just by reading one's
>> mail!!!???
>>
>> But what if the "mail" is a MS Word file, attached, and one
>> opens the Word file attachment, and it contains whatever a Word
>> virus is called?
>>
>> Can someone with expertise resolve my concern?
>>
>> Thank you in advance ....
>>
>> MoscowSam scripter@uidaho.edu
>>
>> >>> WARNING!!!!! WARNING!!!!! WARNING!!!!! WARNING!!!!!
>> WARNING!!!!! >>> >>> If you receive an e-mail titled "JOIN THE
>> CREW" DO NOT >>> OPEN IT! It will erase EVERYTHING on your
>> hard drive. Send this >>> letter out to as many people you
>> can....this is a new virus and not >>> many people know about
>> it. >>> >>> This information was received this morning from an
>> employee from IBM, >>> and should be shared with anyone that
>> might access the internet. >>> >>> Also, if anyone received
>> mail entitled "PENPAL GREETINGS!" delete it >>> WITHOUT reading
>> it. This is a warning for all internet users. This is >>> >>>
>> a dangerous virus propagating across the internet through
>> e-mail >>> message. DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY MESSAGES CALLED
>> "PENPAL GREETINGS!". >>> >>> This message appears to be a
>> friendly letter asking you if you are >>> interested in a
>> penpal, but by the time you read this letter, it is >>> too
>> late. The trojan horse virus will have already infected the
>> boot >>> sector of your hard drive, destroying all of the data
>> present. It is >>> a self-replicating virus, and once the
>> message is read, it will >>> automatically forward itself to
>> anyone's e-mail address present in >>> YOUR mailbox. >>> >>>
>> This virus will DESTROY your hard drive and holds potential to
>> destroy >>> >>> the hard drive of anyone else in your in-box
>> and who's mail is in >>> their in-box and so on. If this virus
>> keeps getting passed along, it >>> has the potential to do a
>> great deal of damage to computer networks >>> worldwide! >>>
>> >>> DELETE the message entitled "PENPAL GREETINGS!" as soon as
>> you see it >>> and pass it along to your friends, relatives,
>> and other readers of the >>> >>> newsgroups and mailing lists
>> which you are on so that they are not >>> hurt by the virus.
>> This virus IS A NEW VIRUS that has started going >>> around in
>> the last couple of days. DO NOT OPEN or even look at any >>>
>> mail that you get that says - "Returned or Unable to Deliver".
>> This >>> virus will attach itself to our computer components
>> and render them >>> useless. Immediately delete any mail items
>> that says this. >>> >>> AOL has said this is a very dangerous
>> virus, and there is NO remedy >>> for it at this time. This
>> message should be forwarded to every single >>> >>> person you
>> know.
> -- Ron Force rforce@belle.lib.uidaho.edu Dean of Library
> Services University of Idaho Moscow, ID 83844 (208) 885-6534