Harmon Seaver writes: > > Well, you do remember, perhaps, a little thing called the "Arpanet > Worm" that shut down the entire Internet a few years ago? It worked thru > e-mail. Not all that hard to do, really. I'm sure you've seen uuencoded > files that become executables again, right? Yes, but these executables have to be RUN in order to infect a machine, right? I think this is where the confusion is. Just downloading something through e-mail (and not running it) is an unlikely way to "contract" a computer virus. -David ============================================================================= David Schwarze '73 VW Safare Custom Camper (Da Boat) SAIC Comsystems, San Diego '73 Capri GT 2800 (Da Beast) schwarze@nosc.mil '87 Mustang Lx 5.0 (Da Bruiser? Soon...) =============================================================================
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