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

[Stuart Staniford-Chen (stuart]

I don't know, I'm sorry.  I'm not familiar enough with Eudora to answer.

Stuart.

administration wrote:
> 
> Hi Stuart,
> 
> In Eudora it is possible to view the message prior to clicking on its
> heading. Would that prevent the virus program from getting into the hard
> drive?
> 
> Helen
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Staniford-Chen <stuart [at] silicondefense.com>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <cohousing-l [at] freedom.mtn.org>
> Date: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 1:45 PM
> Subject: Re: Virus in Howard Mead's message on coho mailing list
> 
> >
> >
> >Eris Weaver wrote:
> >>
> >> > > 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.
> >

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