Virus Alert!

On 2007-12-15 00:47:11 -0800, "John Mazor" said:


"Morgans" wrote in message
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"Stefan" wrote

Serious virus warnings are *never* distributed by e-mails like the one
you posted.
Actually, this e-mail itself can be considered a kind of virus, because
it fills
mailboxes, wastes people's time and probably causes some friendly
christmas mails to be
deleted unread.

Actually, I would not say never.

Where I work, there are a lot of computers networked together, and a
lot of people
bringing things (files and software) from home and sticking into them,
and that adds up
to a great chance of something undesirable getting into the system, and
spreading if a
warning is not passed.

That is how I got this warning, and admittedly, I did not spend as much
time checking on
it, as I would have done if I had been at home.

This may have been bogus but there is some valid history behind these
things. Back in the
DOS days any way that you could get the victim's PC to execute just two
lines of DOS
commands would have been fatal:

cd C:\
delete *.*

Or get the user to execute those two commands in order to get rid of a
supposed virus. Remember the emails that went out telling the user to
erase obscure system files which were claimed to be viruses?
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