Folks...guess it is time to pull out the Email virus note again. BEFORE YOU
HIT THAT FORWARD KEY>>>>>>> read this. There are no such things are
computer viruses that come thorugh email, and please do not send this to
everyone you know, .or *worse yet* post it to BIG LISTS of people...like
Lactnet, because it perpetuates the myth, and wastes time and money for
everyone.
Thanks.
Kathleen
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This the myth....
>> If you have an internet e-mail account through a home
>> computer, please be aware of an e-mail message entitled
>> "Penpal Greetings"; it is a Trojan Horse virus.1
>>
>> This virus is more dangerous than the standard variety
>> in that it is activiated through merely reading its con-
>> tents, not just downloading to your computer. In addition,
>> once activated, this virus reads your mailbox e-mail
>> addresses and sends itself to each of those recipients.
>> Therefore, immediately delete it without exercising your
>> curiosity as to its content.
>>
>> Please foward this message to your e-mailing friends.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> ___________________
>>
>> 1 A trojan horse virus infects a hard drive's boot sector
>> and can destroy all data contained thereon..
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This the TRUTH, from a friend's note....
>""First of all, you should all know that any kind of virus has to be
>executed somehow, in order to be able to have any kind of effect.
>"merely reading its content" will NEVER (he wanted that enhanced...), in
>itself, be a threat.
>
>But things are never as simple as they could be : the only potential
>problem these days are that softwares are more and more sophisticated
>and can sometimes execute background tasks (for example, Microsoft Word
>macros or Java Applets). On the other hand, softwares should always ask
>you permission before doing any of these background tasks.
>
>In any cases, any time you receive such a wide spread email warning, you
>should always check its validity with your local computer security
>expert before propagating potentially useless warnings (read hoax !).
>Such warnings are, in many cases, more a waste of time and bandwidth
>than anything else. If you do not know any computer security experts,
>the world wide reference in this matter is CERT (Computer Emergency
>Response Team). They can be looked at at http://www.cert.org or mailed
>to at [log in to unmask] Another good reference is FIRST (Forum of Incident
>Response and Security Teams). Again, you can browse at
>http://www.first.org or mail to [log in to unmask] The CIAC
>(http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac) maintains a list of known hoaxes...
>
>In conclusion, the probability of contracting a virus through e-mail
>(without you inviting it in !) is typically null if you do not configure
>your mail program to do any automatic tasks without asking you
>confirmation before.
>
>But REMEMBER... If everything else fails, for whatever reasons, I sure
>hope you have a good backup. This might be your only life boat when
>your PC ship is sinking...
>
Kathleen B. Bruce, BSN, IBCLC co-owner Lactnet,Corgi-L,TLC, Indep. Consultant
http://together.net/~kbruce/kbbhome.html
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