Re: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!VIRUS WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Paul W. J. Stanley]

haha only a DAM FOOL runs an attachment called "joke.com" (although it's probably changed to something else by now)   For those who don't know: .COM files are '64k segment' programs. The program type dates back to the early 80s or before. Because they only use 100h bytes in the header they are very small programs and viruses often use the format.   It' s a pretty basic rule which most people dont follow...   DONT OPEN ATTACHMENTS FROM PEOPLE YOU DONT KNOW.   Even if you know someone that sent you an attachment and it is a joke or a chain email dont open the attachment. They could have sent you a virus without knowing it.   These days you have to turn off scripting in windows since emails in outlook can now infect you just by opening the email. ----- Original Message ----- From: Diarmuid Tyson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 9:16 AM Subject: Re: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!VIRUS WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Somewhat dramatic...   Snowhite is "Curible" (sic) however.  From memory it patches your Wsock32.dll.  If you've opened it, run SFC (system file checker) from "run" on the start menu and replace that file. D. At 04:50 PM 11/05/01 +1000, you wrote: !!!!!VIRUS WARNING!!!!! DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENT IN THE   E-MAIL WITH THE SUBJECT(Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story) -- IT HAS A INCURIBLE VIRUS ON IT (not the home page virus a different one) --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/membersozdat@datascribe.com.au/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------