Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.9.3/8.9.0.Beta5/980425bjb) with SMTP id VAA12889; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 21:57:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 21:57:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <0.9375938c.254ba262@aol.com> Errors-To: listmgr@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: ChloeMizoo@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:2540] Re: [Fwd: Important Virus Warning] X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 27 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Status: OR klassenkaiser@sk.sympatico.ca writes: << Let me know again if you did not get the info on the BUDDY virus. I'll try again to forward it. Norma Klassen >> Norma, Please don't forward it again because this virus warning is a hoax. There is no such virus and no announcement was recently made by Microsoft about it. This hoax has been circulating in some form or another on the Internet since January, 1997. Just so that you know, viruses can only be passed along in files that contain executable code. They can be embedded in a file attached to an e-mail or within a "hot link" in an e-mail. They cannot, however, be embedded in an e-mail text message and it is impossible to get a virus just by opening an e-mail message. You'd have to open the attached file or click on the hot link. Never open an e-mail attachment unless you know what it is--even if it comes from someone you know and trust -- without first running anti-virus software. There are a lot of viruses out there but there are also a lot of hoax warnings. Hoax virus warnings are more than mere annoyances. After repeatedly becoming alarmed, only to learn that there was no real virus, computer users may get into the habit of ignoring all virus warning messages, leaving them especially vulnerable to the next real, and truly destructive, virus. Next time you receive an urgent virus warning message, check it against the lists of known viruses and virus hoaxes on one of the numerous Internet sites dedicated to virus warnings and hoaxes. Check them out first and if they are bogus, please delete them and do not pass them along to everyone as the hoax message instructs you to do. They are Internet litter. Thanks, Chloe Fessler
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