Thu Oct 2 16:29:52 1997
- Message No. 1508
From: Pierre J Debras
Subject: Re: WG:
Two months ago, a friend of mine had his entire hard drive formatted by an
e-mail virus ...
Don't believe this. E-mail message cannot contain virus. BUT be carefull
with attachments to e-mail, such as exe, activex, pluggins, word docs (can
include macro) ... these CAN contain viruses. You'd better inactivate the
"auto-launch attachement " of your mail program and never launch an
attachement (or anything downloaded) from an non-trusted source.
This was today's advice of aunt Bigcpu!
Pierre
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