From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 22 1998 - 09:30:20 EST
At 2:37 AM -0600 12/22/98, Terence Miller wrote:
>"He wakes us morning by morning to hear as the learned."
>A reliable source tells us that IBM has issued a virus alert this morning.
>If you receive an e mail entitled JOIN THE CREW....for PENPALS...........DO
>NOT OPEN IT. It will erase everything on your hard drive without remedy and
>will automatically forward itself to all addresses in your book.
This looks to me like another form of the so-called "Good Times" virus
hoax. I don't believe that e-mail (that is, unformatted ASCII text) itself
can be the carrier of a virus, although an attached program certainly can
be.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics/Washington University
One Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018
Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649
cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu OR cconrad@yancey.main.nc.us
WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/
--- B-Greek home page: http://sunsite.unc.edu/bgreek You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu] To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-b-greek-329W@franklin.oit.unc.edu To subscribe, send a message to subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Sat Apr 20 2002 - 15:40:11 EDT