Re: Fwd: <all>SERIOUS WARNING HARD DRIVE VIRUS -- aol4free.com

["Rich Garrett"<jrgarre@uswest.com>]

From: Rich Garrett on 04/09/97 04:59 PM MDT
Ok,

The aol4free "virus" is a hoax.

It is completely impossible for a virus to affect your computer as a result
of simply opening an email message. Viruses are programs, like any other,
and require someone to actually run the specific program that the virus
uses as a transport. So unless you downloaded an infected file attachment
from your email, or from an ftp/web site, and then run said program, you
don't have to worry about it.

For more information, and an official source on real and hoax security
issues, see the following URL that is sponsored by the US Dept. of Energy:

http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html

Rich


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