Re: Beware of Virus

[sean <qatboy@richmond.infi.net>]

At 02:45 PM 11/14/97 -0500, Patrick Flowers wrote:
>sean wrote:
>> 
>> If you receive an e-mail titled, "JOIN THE CREW", DO NOT open it!  
><whack>
>
>Bad news Sean, you're the virus.

Hey, dont get vindictive, pap smear! The announcement was emailed to me
and then mistakenly forwarded to the list.
I would rather not waste Scirocco bandwidth either.
If youre aware of these hoaxes, and realize what they are, fine.
I neednt be reminded.

As well, for all of you who know nothing about programming, and for those
of you who do, a good programmer friend of mine assures me with hidden
encryption it is possible to send destructive information; albeit hard
drive eradication is virtually unheard of.



So relax.
And its Paul.
'84 16v Scirocco

  This is a hoax, emails are text
>documents and cannot contain a virus(which is by nature a program). 
>This does not include attachments to emails(especially executables)
>which can contain a virus.  If you get an email with an unsolicited
>attachment, delete it immediately or at least scan it with a good virus
>checker before saving or opening.  The "CREW" and "PENPAL" warnings were
>started by individuals who get their jollies by seeing the messages
>propagate around the world, tying up bandwidth.  So the virus is
>replicated when someone receives the bogus warning and passes it on.
>
>Patrick
>-- 
>Patrick Flowers
>Mailto:patri63@ibm.net

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