At 10:50 PM -0500 1/19/01, The Bus Depot wrote: >Before I left work today, I downloaded my email (using Outlook 2000). The >dreaded virus email from hahaha@sexyfun.net was among the ones I received. >(Of course I have no idea whose computer it originated from.) > >I immediately hit "delete" once I saw the dreaded subject line. I did _not_ >open the attachment, or double click on the email (although the "snow white" >message text is immediately visable on the preview pane in Outlook when I >first see it). I am not clear on whether simply _receiving_ the email and >seeing it in the preview pane could have given me the virus, or whether I >would have had to actually open the attachment to get it (which I did not). >I couldn't find the answer on sexyfun.net or symantec.com . Can somebody >clue me in? I'm don't know much about viruses but I think I heard that you >were safe unless you opened the attachment. If so I'm worrying over >nothing, but I want to make sure. Unless you open the attachment, you're safe. Coyote -- /\_/\ ____ Ron Lussier ( ) \ _/__ Lenscraft coyote@lenscraft.com \ / \X / 229 8th Street Unit 4 1.415.241.0815 \_/ \/ San Francisco, CA 94103 |
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