28 Mar
1999
28 Mar
'99
11:29 p.m.
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Zane H. Healy wrote:
OK, this is totally off topic, but if you haven't
heard the weekends news
I'd recommend checking out the following URL:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/special/melissavirus.html
Normally I discount these as hoaxes, but this isn't. Thankfully I'm one of
the 'Dinosaurs' at work that refuses to give up an antique RS/6000 for a
nice shiny new NT box, so I'm still on UNIX e-mail.
The problem in a nutshell, don't open any messages in a Microsoft E-Mail
program with the following title "Important Message From: {persons name}".
Since I don't run MS-Word on anything at home, and I don't care about
the Windows machines in my cube at work, I just don't worry about it.
There doesn't seem to be much in the way of email viruses that affect
a guy who reads it through a telnet connection.
--
Ward Griffiths
"the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take the plunge then
you'll just take the fall" Michael Longcor