[alberg30] Re: 'Important Info' is an "urban legend" hoax

[Steve Weingart]

From: Steve Weingart <shw at gate.net>

At 12:56 AM 6/15/98 -0400, you wrote:
>From: Dan Sternglass <dans at stmktg.com>
>Joe and Dena -- Thanks for the warning, I'm sure your intentions are
>good. However, this is a repeat of a fairly old "urban legend" and is a
>hoax. It is not possible to erase files by opening an e-mail.
>

Just for info, so is the cookie recipie thing, it, along with the hoax
e-mail virus stuff has been recurring for *years*.

Just so you know, as Dan said, there is no way opening and reading e-mail
can hurt your computer (I worked for the IBM anti-virus group for several
years).  

On the other hand opening and executing an attachment can propagate a virus
(infect your computer), so don't execute programs, or read Word documents,
that come from unknown sources via e-mail attachment.  Run a good virus
checker on your computer.

Steve

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