E-mail Virus

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>Please check the following web site before forwarding any e-mails 

warning

>of new viruses.

>

>http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html

>

>Both "jJoin the Crew" and "Penpal Greetings" are hoaxes.

>

>Dave Jones - San Francisco

>davjones@dnai.com


I agree.  Since my profession is computer programming, my two cents
would be that it is IMPOSSIBLE!! to have an e-mail virus.  E-mail
is just text and you can't have a virus in text.  The only way you
could send a virus through e-mail is to attach a file to the
e-mail and then the virus would be spread, IF AND ONLY IF you
download that file and run it.  If you download the file and then
erase it without running it or doing anything else with it, then
the virus will not get spread.  There are web sites that get into
this with more detail which if the above is not one of them, then
it may have links to other sites which explain this in more detail.

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