Re: Fwd: FW: warning

Brad Thomas (bthomas@Seqwright.com)
Fri, 12 Jun 1998 14:12:06 +0000

False alarms of this sort appear all the time. Basically a virus or
Trojan Horse payload or the like must be associated with some sort
of executable file. Thus someone can mail you a virus as part of an
attached executable file or an encoded enclosure, but simpy opening
the mail document can't launch viruses. Caviat: web browsers and
mail programs should never be set up to automatically extract, decode
or execute anything after downloading. The biggest problem, by the
way is Word macro viruses. Documents created by Microsoft Word (6
or >) or Excel should always be mistrusted and scanned with antivirus
software. Keep your antivirus software up-to-date. New macro
viruses, in particular, appear frequently.

> From: David.Eustice.B@bayer.com
> Subject: Fwd: FW: warning
> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 09:29:23 -0400
> To: Recipients of ABRF List <abrf@aecom.yu.edu>

> ---------------------- Forwarded by David Eustice/WESTH/PH/US/BAYER on 06/12/98
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> Cindy Lion
> 06/12/98 09:20 AM
> To: BWHLN-Users
> cc:
> Subject: Fwd: FW: warning
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> IMPORTANT! Please read!
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> Subject: Warning
> Importance: High
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> If you receive an email titled "WIN A HOLIDAY" DO NOT open it.
> It will erase everything on your hard drive. Forward this letter
> out to as many people as you can. This is a new, very malicious
> virus and not many people know about it. This information was
> announced yesterday morning from Microsoft; please share it with
> everyone that might access the Internet.
> Once again, pass this along to everyone in your address book so
> that this may be stopped.
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Brad Thomas
Senior Scientist
SeqWright, Inc.
bthomas@seqwright.com
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