attachments, viruses, email, and lists

[James Grebe]

I had opened it also and did the same test to myself and it did not show up.
            James Grebe
R.P.T. and M.P.T.
 from St. Louis
pianoman@inlink.com
                  Creator of:
 Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups
                  and
Practical   Piano    Benches
"Tranquility Base"
E.T.A.     April, 1999
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Goodale <Robert.Goodale@NAU.EDU>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Sunday, February 14, 1999 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: attachments, viruses, email, and lists


>
>
>Andrew M. Rudoff wrote:
>
>> Pianotech subscribers,
>>
>> There's an unusual program floating around that, if run on your machine,
>> changes your machine to add the program as an attachment to your outgoing
>> messages.  Someone on our list has been infected with this virus and has
>> posted a message to pianotech containing an attachment called
"Happy99.exe".
>>
>> If you received this program, don't run it.
>
>I received this program and did infact run it.  The *only* reason I did so
was
>because it came from an individual on this list and thus I assumed it to be
a
>friendly jestur of sorts.
>
>At any rate, I ran a test by mailing to myself and the attachment did not
show
>up.  My guess is that it apparently does not always work.  If it shows up
again
>(with this message or in the future), please let me know.  OBVIOUSLY IF IT
DOES
>YOU DON"T WANT TO RUN IT!!  just let me know if it shows up.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Rob Goodale, RPT
>
>