At 12:11 AM 11/8/96 -0700, you wrote: >>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 14:14:28 -1000 >>Subject: virus alert >> >> Subject: VIRUS >>> Date: Tuesday, October 29, 1996 2:38PM >>> >>> Subject: [Fwd: Virus Alert] (fwd) >>> From: Jane_Seiden@mail.sel.sony.com at ORL-SMTP-G >>> Date: 10/21/96 5:22 PM >>> >>> HI ALL - HERE'S MORE VIRUS INFO FROM SONY HQ, FORWARDED FROM LONDON, >>> FYI. TAKE CARE -- JS >>> >>> There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. >>> If you receive an e-mail message with the subject line "Irina", DONOT >>> read the message. DELETE it immediately. >>> Some miscreant is sending people files under the title "Irina". If >>> you receive this mail or file, do not download it. It has a virus >>> that rewrites your hard drive, obliterating anything on it. Please be >>> careful and forward this mail to anyone you care about. >>> ( Information received from the Professor Edward Prideaux, College of >>> Slavonic Studies, London ). > You cannot get a virus by reading an e-mail. However if the e-mail contains an attached file which is a program and if the miscreant can somehow get you to run that program, then you are vulnerable. But just reading -- No. -Bob Scott
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