Burzin
At 11:49 AM 12/4/2003, you wrote:
About 99% of viruses that are received are ones that the virus itself sent out, that has meaningless content. In the rare cases where someone intentionally sends out an attachment that happens to have a virus, their computer is infected -- and, well, I think it's not a good idea to go out of your way to get their E-mail delivered. If you do, they may not bother disinfecting their computer -- which could enable spammers to send out millions of spams, for example.
Also, you should note that several viruses will include a document from the computer they infect in the E-mails they send out. So confidential documents may be spread by cleaning E-mails with viruses.
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