Vickie, I am replying to all in this case not to embarass you but to offer some
sources to all Carpenter roots web subscribers on computer viruses. Here is an
excerpt from a Web source:
http://www.gerlitz.com/virushoax/
"A virus can not exist in an e-mail text message. They also can NOT exist
in USENET
(newsgroup) postings or simply "float around" the internet. Viruses must
be attached to and
infect an executable program. Viruses and other system-destroying bugs can
ONLY exist in
FILES, and since e-mail is not a system file, viruses can not exist there.
While reading e-mail,
you are not executing any malicious code to activate! Thus, no virus can
exist. HOWEVER,
if you (or your computer) download a FILE attached to an e-mail or USENET
posting
(i.e.-binary) and run it, there IS a chance that file could contain a
virus, since a
runable file could contain a virus. It is also very important that you DO
NOT, under any
circumstances, allow your e-mail program to automatically download and/or
execute an
attached file. You risk infection by doing so! "
(My note: Ask your internet provider or a Java expert about e-mail with Java
based code in it)
Here are some other sources that document of hoaxes and known viruses:
http://www.nonprofit.net/hoax/hoax.html
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/
http://kumite.com/myths/ ( kind of tongue in cheek, but has some interesting
info)
Hope this helps eliminate some needless e-mail traffic on the internet!
Jerry Carpenter "There is no failure except to stop trying"
18716 McGhee Drive East
Bonney Lake WA 98390
Tel/Fax 253-891-3090
http://www.netcom.com/~carpncc
Vickie Taylor wrote:
Hello Group,
I just got a call from my brother who is visiting in Austin, Tx. He
called me to tell me the newspaper there was reporting a virus that is date
activated. Tomorrow the 26th is the day. It is supposed to do big damage to
your motherboard.
We'll hope this is just another hoax, but, he was concerned enough to
make several calls from Austin to central Ok.
I'm sorry for using the list in this manner, but if it is for real, than
it might be a good thing and save of all some trouble. If not and it is a
hoax, please feel free to yell at me on the 27th.
Vickie Neill Taylor
flip(a)chickasaw.com
--
Jerry Carpenter "There is no failure except to stop trying"
18716 McGhee Drive East
Bonney Lake WA 98390
Tel/Fax 253-891-3090
http://www.netcom.com/~carpncc