Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Virus in Howard Mead's message on coho mailing list

[Eris Weaver (eris]

> > Please be aware that the attachment Happy99.exe sent by Howard Mead with
> > the subject "re:tagline for cohousing community" contains a virus.
> > According to my husband, (one of the techies of this world), if you end up
> > downloading this email to your hard drive, do NOT open this email; just
> > DELETE it.)

I've had experience with this virus.  Just READING the email will not
activate the virus -- you have to run the executable program happy.exe by
clicking on it in order to get the virus.  You CANNOT GET A VIRUS JUST BY
READING EMAIL...you have to open an attached executable file.

eris