Howard,
What a virus can, or cannot do, depends how the virus is designed.
However, if you never RUN an attachment, the only thing that will happen
is nothing.
With Arachne, and other browsers if one does as one should and learns
how to run software safely, you can save an attached file and check it
out for viruses before you go any further. You find a virus, you delete
the file and mail a bomb back to the idiot that sent it to you ... or
*feel* like doing so, at least.
Some Dozerware "viruses" like the 27 gigamegatrillitons of different
brands of Hybris, are so simple to spot you don't even need to have
virus check software ... you can just view the file and know it's
Hybris. <G> If you keep it [me, keep a virus???] be careful; if you're
not feeling masochistic, delete and have no fear.
l.d.
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On Wed, 16 May 2001 03:32:23 -0900 (PDT), Howard Schwartz wrote:
> Once recall a post that claimed, if an attachment is put on drive,
> Q, opened and contained a virus - the virus could not migrate to
> your other drives, such as C, D etc. and do damage to files there.
> If so, this sounds like a sensible thing to do with attachments and I
> will impliment it. But I must wonder, - one one opens a file that
> lets some kind of code get into RAM, go through the CPU etc. - can
> it not then try to deposit itself in the boot sector or other drive,
> as part of its binary instruction set?
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