Re: VIRUSES BY MARK THOMAS

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From: dm... D.M. Richerby
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 00:00

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In article <33232B...@cs.com>,
"John M. Aldrich" <figh...@cs.com> writes:
>  - You CANNOT get infected by any virus simply from reading your news or
> email!

Not strictly true.  If you're stupid enough to read news/E-mail with the
internet extensions to MS Office, then it will automatically open the
attachment (I think).  This makes it very easy to infect yourself with
such a macro virus.

Dave.

-- 
David Richerby, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge.

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From: dm...@thor.cam.ac.uk (D.M. Richerby)
Subject: Re: VIRUSES BY MARK THOMAS
Date: 1997/03/13
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