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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