Re: FW: virus

[Ken Umbach <kumbach@UNLIMITED.NET>]

At 12:12 PM 1/30/98 -0600, you wrote:
>I was always under the impression that viruses could not be transmitted
>by e-mail.  What's this all about?

It is another of those d*mn*d hoax chain e-mails.  The virus IS these
endlessly repeated messages.  (Viruses and trojan horses CAN be transmitted
in executable attachments and via macros in Word documents ... but not in
ASCII text or other non-executable, non-macro-containing files.)

Ken

>
>
>On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Reina Nuernberger. American International wrote:
>> ---------------Original Message---------------
>> VIRUS  WARNING!!
>>

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