On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 02:15:19 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote:
> When I receive a questionable attachment and recognize who it came from, I
> normally query the sender. If I recognize the attachment as a virus, I let the
> sender know. But then I usually don't have any contact with the sender's
> father.
> Currently I have only DR-DOS 7.03 installed and running, so all those viruses do
> to me is look strange. But wouldn't you also be safe with Linux or
> (Free, Net or Open)BSD?
>From all that I have read about these email viruses that are going
around these days, they only affect Windows. I suppose a good virus
writer could also write an email virus for DOS or for any other
operating system; however, I don't think you could run the virus
program simply by opening the email. You would have to be stupid
enough to save the attachment and then deliberatey run it before
scanning it.
Sam Heywood
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