SC - Holy Feast and Holy Fast-OT
Nick Sasso
grizly at mindspring.com
Thu May 4 20:02:05 PDT 2000
CorwynWdwd at aol.com wrote:
>
> Let me say first that I am far from a computer expert. That said, I am
> unaware that it's possible to download a virus simply by opening mail, which
> is mostly, if not always text. Is it possible that there may be an attached
> file you'd have to open to download the virus? Or perhaps many corporate type
> computers automatically download attached files?
>
With microsoft mail readers, in some cases, they will execute
attachments automatically. I don't know if the "I love you" worm does
that.
Specifically internet explorer and outlook express are vulnerable to
this virus/worm.
You are better off to not take any chances. (My husband is a computer
expert.)
Evfemia at mail.com
Iron Mtn, Meridies
> Anybody have any recipes for toasted hard drives?
>
> Corwyn
>
> In a message dated 5/4/2000 7:48:06 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> Susanne.Mayer at vie.boehringer-ingelheim.com writes:
>
> > Hello all,
> > >
> > > there are a lot of incidents with a fast spreading e-mail in our
> > > organization :
> > >
> > > PLEASE INFORM THE USER IN YOUR SITES at once
> > >
> > > that they are not allowed to open e-mail with the subject
> > >
> > > ILOVEYOU
> > >
> > > Those messages must be deleted without opening.
> > >
> > > The Virus is not detected by Groupshield !!
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > > GSC
>
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evfemia
Barony of Iron Mountain, Meridies
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