Re: The Led Zeppelin Mailing List Digest V1 #193- Virus or Joke?

[Bernard El-Hagin <belhagin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, MacDonald wrote:

> Re post from snipe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx  Is this some kind of joke or what?  Last
> week someone posted to the Digest to be aware of mail from this address. 
> It is supposed to contain a virus.  This week they are being ripped off by
> a bad trader.  
> Anyone know for sure what is going on?

The only thing I know for sure is that you can't catch a virus just by
opening mail. If there are executeable files and you run them than you
*can* catch a virus, but not just by opening mail.

I also know that where there's smoke there's fire so I wouldn't take this
guy/girl/both seriously.

Cheers,
Poor-Tom

"When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl."