Re: Virus or virus hoax?

[Michelle Ohnstad <mohnstad@GROSSMONT.K12.CA.US>]

There is no way to catch a virus from an email message.  I think Peter
Milbury has even mentioned this quite a few times on the list.  What these
messages do, however, is have a "chain letter" type effect when people
continually forward these things to everyone.  It just gives fuel to their
fire...

Michelle

At 18:32 4/9/98 -0700, you wrote:
>One of our teachers has circulated a message from "IT&T Services" to the
>effect that there is a devastating virus contained in an e-mail message
>titled "WIN A HOLIDAY" and in any (??) mail titled "RETURNED OR UNABLE
>TO DELIVER", and that warnings should be circulated far and wide.  I am
>immediately suspicious of anything that suggests forwarding a message to
>everybody in the universe.  Has anybody else heard this story?  Does
>anyone know if it's true or folklore?
>LaVerne Ireland, Librarian
>Live Oak High School
>1505 E. Main Avenue
>Morgan Hill, CA  95037
>(408) 779-5270 Voice mail 425 (but we're on vacation until 4/20)
>email lireland@ix.netcom.com
>
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Michelle S. Ohnstad
Library Tech - Valhalla High School
SJSU MLIS Student
El Cajon, CA
mohnstad@grossmont.k12.ca.us
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