On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 21:24:06 -0600 (Central Standard Time), J Wynia
<jwynia@pragmapool.com> wrote:
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>>> your infected if you recieved it or checked your mail. period!
>>
>> I'd disagree with that. The worm spreads through the attachment that
>> would need to be opened. If you didn't open it and run the worm, I
>> don't see how it could infect your machine.
>
> Yeah. I've gotten 10's of thousands of infected messages over the years
> and NEVER gotten infected by an email. The only virus I've ever gotten
> was
> Monkey.B in 1996 from a floppy disc.
>
> Computer viruses are like real world infections. Getting the infected
> messages is like someone sneezing on you. You can be exposed to tons of
> infections, but never get sick. Or, if you have a weak immune system, you
> can get sick with every little thing that comes along.
>
>
I've been running virus software lately. I've never really used it at all
in the last 10 years. I think I had a virus once. But when I run it now it
does find viruses. Not in infected files, bu the attached files that come
with the virus email. I never run these files. And frankly don't even read
the emails.
-- -Droo
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