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This warning has circulated for weeks now & seems to be of the same nature as a number of similar warnings over the past year or two. Email simply cannot give you a virus -- a virus can only be embedded in a program and can affect your computer if you run that program and thus activate the virus. Email is simply a data-file and as such not an executable program. This is at least what them that know more than I about such matters have not tired to explain to me when I have forwarded similar warnings. -- Pierre Peter Riley wrote: > >From: "Packard Bell" <[log in to unmask]> > >To: <[log in to unmask]> > >Subject: VERY URGENT MESSAGE > >Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:59:08 -0000 > >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > >X-Priority: 3 > > > >Peter....I know the guy who sent this..he knows his stuff..please take it > >seriously > > > > > >Charlie Ulyatt > > > >---------- > >> From: Ian Lawrence <[log in to unmask]> > > >> Subject: BE VERY AFRAID! > >> Date: 30 January 1998 16:45 > >> > >If you receive an e-mail titled "JOIN THE CREW" DO NOT open it. It will > >erase everything on your hard drive. Forward this letter out to as many > >people as you can. This is a new, very malicious virus and not many people > >know about it. This information was announced yesterday morning from IBM; > >please share it with everyone that might access the internet. > >Once again, pass this along to EVERYONE in your address book so that this > >may be stopped. Also, do not open or even look at any mail that says > >"RETURNED OR UNABLE TO DELIVERY" This virus will attach itself to your > >computer components and render them useless. Immediately delete any mail > >items that say this. AOL has said that this is a very dangerous virus and > >that there is NO remedy for it at this time. Please practice cautionary > >measures and forward this to all users. > > > > > > > >Regards > > > >Ian & Laura > > -- ========================================= pierre joris 6 madison place albany ny 12202 tel/fax (518) 426 0433 email:[log in to unmask] http://www.albany.edu/~joris/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "What often prevents us from giving ourselves over to a single vice is that we have several of them." — La Rochefoucauld ========================================== %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%