Re: can simply reading an email destroy your machine?

From: Bruce Speyer (bruce.speyer@elecomm.com)
Fri Aug 29 20:06:41 1997


At 12:02 PM 8/28/97 -0500, Bruce Speyer wrote: >Geeks,
>Can simply downloading and reading an email somehow on some systems somehow
>actually infect the system and destroy it? Can this be done? I can't see
>how unless the downloaded file is executed as an application?
>Bruce

I found the answer to my own question of yesterday ...

CIAC Internet Hoaxes Page: http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html

Symantic Virus Hoaxes: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html

The latest "JOIN THE CREW", "AOL4FREE" and most of those really awful scary virus messages are hoaxes (fake).

Bruce

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