Theos-Talk Archives (June 2001 Message tt00008)

John:

In this case, it's the attachment which is a program that contains
the virus, not the email itself. But it might be possible for an
attachment to be a macro that automatically runs when you open an
email, in certain email programs like outlook? The safest thing to
do is to either delete the email without looking at it, so save it
to a file, then look at the file with some ascii-only editor like
notepad, vi, etc. to get a look at the non-attachment part of the
message.

-- Eldon

At 03:01 PM 6/1/01 +0000, you wrote:
> Frank, please clarify: Did you mean to say "Don't open the email" or di
> you meant to say: "Don't open the attachment", as Eldon explained it. I
> ask because I did open the automatic email that came, but as always, I
> ALWAYS dump any emails that I open and see an "Attachment" included. I
> never open the attchment.
>
> To conclude: Am I now infected simply because I opened the email, even
> though I did not open the attachment?
>
> John DeSantis
> (Compiler)
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> --- In theos-talk@y..., "Frank Reitemeyer" <ringding@b...> wrote:
> > Don't open the email from pendragon headed "Re: Theos-World Digest Number
> > 187", it's a virus.
> >
> > If you open the email the virus will be active and spread itselfs to the
> > first 3 senders found in the first 3 emails in your mail folder.
> >
> > That's no joke.
> >
> > The same was today wiht the German mailing lit where pendragon (someone 
> form
> > the TS Temple of the People) spreat the virsu, too.
> >
> > Frank
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