Date:         Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:50:45 -0800
Reply-To:     Ron Lussier <rlussier@LENSCRAFT.COM>
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From:         Ron Lussier <rlussier@LENSCRAFT.COM>
Subject:      Re: Snow White - Help!!
Comments: To: The Bus Depot <busdepot@EMAIL.COM>
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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
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