Re: HOAX! Re: [Fwd: Fwd: Fw: new virus out read & pass on] -- stop sending chain letters.

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Rene wrote:
> Never did they mention that it was simply a Windows script that
> *only* affects Windows users, and among those Windows users
> only those that use Microsoft Outlook, and among those only those
> who are stupid enough to leave the automatic execution function on.
> In other words, NOBODY with even a glimpse of computer
> common sense was affected.
I caught a glimpse of computer common sense, once. It happened one snowy
evening ... but I digress. My point is that I got hit with the I Love You
virus, lost all my .jpg files on my whole system. I don't use Outlook
Express, ever. I never installed it. (That's why it didn't spread from me
to others, but it still hit me.)
I didn't know that Virtual Basic even ran on my machine. I DID stupidly
click (in Eudora) on the attachment, because I thought .vbs was one of
those business card attachments. I didn't know that .vbs was an executable.

And yet I used to know a little Z-80 assembler, and hacked CP/M. Go figure.

Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx