Re: VIRUSES BY MARK THOMAS

Article View: alt.games.quake

Article #76226

#76226

From: hgre... Dave
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 00:00

30 lines
1524 bytes

On 13 Mar 1997 19:19:36 GMT, dm...@thor.cam.ac.uk (D.M. Richerby)
wrote:

>>  - 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.

If there's an extension like that on it, then it will be an ATTACHMENT
to your email, and not the message.  Opening the email isn't going to
hurt anything, it's if you open the attachment that will hose you.
Just run your virus scanner over it before you open it.   If you keep
an up to date virus scanner and run it when you've finished a download
/ internet session, then you shouldn't have any problems.

The Other Dave :)

Technical Details

Message-ID: <332a9e2a.3266568@news.nwlink.com>

Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail

References: <5g9k08$c@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

From: *hgre...@nwlink.com (Dave)
Subject: Re: VIRUSES BY MARK THOMAS
Date: 1997/03/14
Message-ID: <332a9e2a.3266568@news.nwlink.com>
X-Deja-AN: 225522442
References: <5g9k08$c@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
Organization: Northwest Link
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.games.quake,alt.games.command-n-conq.red-alert,alt.games.descent,alt.games.doom,alt.games.doom.ii,alt.games.doom.newplayers,alt.games.quake,alt.games.redalert,alt.games.warcraft,rec.arts.sf.starwars.games,rec.games.computer.doom.a
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Reply to Parent Message