I recieved an email with the following message:
DO NOT OPEN ANY MAIL SAYING "JOIN THE CLUB" OR ANY "UNABLE TO SEND" EMAILS!!!! THESE MAILS CONTAIN A NEW MALICIOUS VIRUS THAT WILL WIPE OUT YOUR HARD DRIVE ONCE OPENED! THERE ARE NO REMEDIES FOR IT AT THIS TIME.
THANK YOU AND BE CAREFUL
Ok, let's clear this up once again for those of you still believing this crap. I am a computer programmer and technical support by profession. I've been working with the internet for years now. I am a specialist. And I tell you: there is *NO WAY* to get such a virus just by reading a email. Viruses don't transmit through text. The only way you could get a virus by email is if it is attached to your mail and you run it manually. That's all.
EMAILS!!!!
DRIVE
Go to symantec's antivirus research center site (www.symantec.com) and get the straight answer... John
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998 23:42:02 -0500, "Yanik Proulx" wrote:
TRY THIS ONE http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/ciachoaxes.html
[email] (Richy923) writes:
*Please* don't tell me that you believe this garbage? This is one of the oldest myths on the interent, and yet people without a lick of sense or computer literacy continue to spread it. False! This is completely and 100% false, and so is every last one of these idiotic "virus alert" messages that get passed around.
Correct.
Incorrect.
I've got some e-mails saying "Join the Crew" and then I deleted them There's a virus called "Reactor's Kenny" that some dude made up and put into one of my webpages It literally got nuked
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On 28 Jan 1998 01:18:07 GMT, [email] (Shoegaze99) offered this unto Shub-Internet:
To clear things up, simply opening and reading email can not give you a virus. If you open any attachments, you may get one. So if the package looks supicious, just delete the attachment. You can not get a virus simply from reading email.
[email] (Richy923) wrote:
I've known about those viruses for a long time, maybe a month or so. But whenever I told anyone (on the internet) about it, they didn't take me seriously. Even my school got a notice about the viruses from IBM (or whatever crappy system my school uses). So, yeah, I believe they're out there, and we should be careful. Just one thing I don't get... if a lot of people know what to avoid, then why don't the people who made the virus (if it *is* man-made) just have a multi-change thing for the e-mail subjects?
X
To discover is to conquer
The point is, though, to my knowledge, you can't send a virus by text. It must be in a binary, executable, format. (You have to run some sort of file for a virus to spread.) As such, you can't get a virus simply by reading an e-mail. If that e-mail has an attachment, for example, which you download and run (if it's a program, picture, etc.), then you could easily be in trouble. The moral of it all? Feel free to read any e-mail, but delete any attachments you get unless you know who they came from! (And you trust them!)
But, then again, why the heck are we discussing this in the South Park newsgroup? Oh well.
Andy
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