OFF: New Virus Warning

[Andrew A. Apold]

>>Public Service time ladies and gents.  Be Warned.
>>
>>Subject:  Virus Alert
>>Importance:  High
hardly

>Is this for real? The very next message in my mailbox is titled "PINPAL
>GREETINGS!" I guess I'll delete it just in case but I wonder if there's a

these things are never for real.  Unless you run an attatchment it is impossible
to get a virus from e-mail.  If you get an attatchment, (like the recent sheep
item on BOC-L) either scan it or delete it.  There is no way possible for a
virus
to be run by reading e-mail.

This is the same hoax as the "good times" warning that went around awhile back.

In a certain sense, the warning itself is a virus, as it causes gullible
people to
create copies of the message and send them to other gullible people, who
replicate it in this fashion.

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Roger Shrubstaff               "I was corrupt before I had power!" - Random

Baron of Silverwater, Kingdom of the Burning Lands (Amtgard)
http://www.magg.net/~mordru/silver.htm
(Andrew A. Apold)