Subject: Re: Internet virus

From: Shoeless in San Jose <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 21:41:08 -0800 (PST)

Please DO NOT take this seriously.  The 'GOOD TIMES' virus is what you've 
already read.  There is no danger to your computer or its files.  The 
'GOOD TIMES' virus is nothing more than an e-mail message that has been 
propagated around the world more times than I would care to imagine.  
The message IS the virus, and spreading it to all of your friends to warn 
them only serves to put further strain on an already overwhelmed 
Internet.  

There are only two ways your computer can become infected with a virus
from e-mail:  one is if the e-mail is contains a Word for Windows macro
virus - but it would have to be put into your hard drive and run *as* a
Word macro.  The only other possibility of contracting a virus from email
is from an attached file, and you *still* won't infect your computer by
simply reading it.  There IS no virus that your computer can aquire from
your *reading* your e-mail. 

Greg
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