Theos-Talk Archives (June 2001 Message tt00009)

Eldon, Thanks.

John
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--- In theos-talk@y..., Eldon B Tucker <eldon@t...> wrote:
> John:
> 
> In this case, it's the attachment which is a program that contains
> the virus, not the email itself. But it might be possible for an
> attachment to be a macro that automatically runs when you open an
> email, in certain email programs like outlook? The safest thing to
> do is to either delete the email without looking at it, so save it
> to a file, then look at the file with some ascii-only editor like
> notepad, vi, etc. to get a look at the non-attachment part of the
> message.
> 
> -- Eldon
> 
> At 03:01 PM 6/1/01 +0000, you wrote:
> >Frank, please clarify: Did you mean to say "Don't open the email" or di
> >you meant to say: "Don't open the attachment", as Eldon explained it. I
> >ask because I did open the automatic email that came, but as always, I
> >ALWAYS dump any emails that I open and see an "Attachment" included. I
> >never open the attchment.
> >
> >To conclude: Am I now infected simply because I opened the email, even
> >though I did not open the attachment?
> >
> >John DeSantis
> >(Compiler)
> >-------
> >
> >--- In theos-talk@y..., "Frank Reitemeyer" <ringding@b...> wrote:
> > > Don't open the email from pendragon headed "Re: Theos-World Digest Number
> > > 187", it's a virus.
> > >
> > > If you open the email the virus will be active and spread itselfs to the
> > > first 3 senders found in the first 3 emails in your mail folder.
> > >
> > > That's no joke.
> > >
> > > The same was today wiht the German mailing lit where pendragon (someone 
> > form
> > > the TS Temple of the People) spreat the virsu, too.
> > >
> > > Frank
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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