Re: [Fwd: Virus Alert]
On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Robbie Honerkamp wrote:
> > I remember reading about this several months ago. It was the opinion
> > of most people at the time to be just a joke. Anyone know for sure
> > if it is anything other than a joke?
>
> Not true. You can't get a virus from reading an email message.
Actually this is something that can be disputed quite lot, but thankfully
its not something that would happen while using Debian/Linux. Just to
point out, what I mean by that is that one of the most common ways that I
know for passing around all those macro viruses, that now exist in M$-Word
and Excel, will quite heavily spread around throught M$-Mail or about any
other mailer that supports easy interface for adding those documents or
spreadsheets as attachments.
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