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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 22:28:05 +0100
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Michelle Konzack <starone AT cybercable DOT fr>
Subject: Re: 4 VIRUS ALERTS!
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At 19:14 12.11.1999 +0200, you wrote
--------> This was the original Message:
MK>true... you cannot get a virus by simply reading an email msg... however
MK>some of the more modern (especially Windows based) mail programs are set to
MK>"idiot mode" and automatically opens any attachments of certain kinds.  the

Not in WfW 3.11(3.95) and Dos...
...it is a surprise feature in Win2000.

A good virus scanner use the functions "load and execute/stop-it".

MK>trick therefore is to use telnet only :))

Oh yes ???

Why ???

PCNFS and EDIT.COM will do it too...  ;-))

MK>seriously, i recently got home and found to my dismay and utter disbelief
MK>that i sat with a 3 gig non-dos partition on my w95 machine... i figured it
MK>must have been some kind of fdisk virus... beats me how it happened.
MK>
MK>btw, i'd like some comments on my website... especially the esthetics... i
MK>know the darn thing is very much topdown... but what do you ouks think?
MK>
MK>http://www.geocities.com/lacialacia/
MK>
MK>Samuel Murray
MK>

									
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