Re: off list virus question

[Ed Cray cray@xxxxxxxx]

Folks:

(sighing) I would have expected that such longtime computer users as
Xywriters would know NEVER to open attachments, regardless of who
purportedly sent it. Worms burrow into address books and send the deadly
emails.

The safest, and so far perfect solution to the malevolent or steroidal who
send these viruses and worms is simply not to open any attachment
ever. Period.

Ed


On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Ferreira wrote:

> This virus is not a hoax!!
>
> I received a the same email the other day--apparently from a company in MA
> that I sometimes do business with. The attached file appeared to be an MS
> Word file (or at least it had a .doc extension). Thinking (a) that this was
> an attachment from a known source; and (b) that it was not an exe file, I
> opened it.
>
> Disaster struck! My Norton Utilities (a few month old version) came on the
> screen and said something like "Configuration file corrupted". My computer
> locked-up; and when I rebooted I found that my directory structure had been
> corrupted beyond repair.
>
> Don't take this thing lightly. (I have now received about twenty copies of
> this thing. They keep pouring in.)
>
> Phil Ferreira
> Dept. of Philosophy
> Kutztown University
> ferreira@xxxxxxxx ferreira@xxxxxxxx
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Troop" 
> To: 
> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 10:32 AM
> Subject: off list virus question
>
>
> > to all the virus fanatics out there, may I ask one question?
> >
> > Lately I have received several messages which say:
> >
> > "Hi! How are you=3F
> >
> > I send you this file in order to have your advice"
> >
> > and contain some sort of binary. Is this a commonly
> > known virus, or hoax? I have tried to research it with
> > no luck so far.
> >
> >
>