Re: A question about viruses and e-mail

[Bob Appleton <rca@AUDIOPHILE.COM>]

On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Gloria Pitsley <Glolyn@AOL.COM> wrote:

>I was under the impression that a virus could not "infect" your system
>unless you "ran" some sort of executable file that contained the offending
>virus.  You can infect your system just by opening email and not downloading
>and running an attached file with the e-mail?

Please see these URLs for the answer to your question:

http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html
http://www.kumite.com/myths/home.htm

Bob Appleton
Media Specialist

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