March 27, 1999
E-Mail Virus Spreads on Internet,
Could Tie Up Traffic if Unstopped
By MARK BOSLET
Dow Jones Newswires
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- A computer virus that spread quickly across the Internet on
Friday afternoon shut down e-mail servers at some companies and overloaded
others
with
Well, sure -- there ARE real computer viruses. Still, you can't get 'em
(and that goes for this Melissa virus) by opening plain ol' email. You
can only get 'em by opening attached files (like the Word file attachment
that's spreading the Melissa virus). In other words, NEVER open an
attached
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Don Yates wrote:
Well, sure -- there ARE real computer viruses. Still, you can't get 'em
(and that goes for this Melissa virus) by opening plain ol' email. You
can only get 'em by opening attached files (like the Word file attachment
that's spreading the Melissa
what an attachment is on an
email don't open it and you likely won't get a virus.
-ldk
-Original Message-
From: Don Yates [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: passenger side [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Saturday, March 27, 1999 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: This time, there's a REAL Net Virus warning...
Well, sure