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RE: alert!



The salient point is that you can't get infected by reading an email.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: JohnE37179@aol.com [SMTP:JohnE37179@aol.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 28, 1997 1:37 PM
> To:   John Clavin (Digital); owner-dinosaur@usc.edu; rbartlet@axionet.com;
> dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject:      Re:  RE: alert! 
> 
> Unfortunately, John, there are now two viruses that have "infected" email.
> both of these viruses "infect" only files into which the email may be
> copied.
>  Neither can get to directories or any type of root file.
> 
> John Ellingson
> Madison, WI
> 
> For those of you who don't know me,  it is time for me to come out of the
> closet. I am not a paleontologist.. Geology was my undergrad major. I no
> longer practice law. I am the founder and president of two artifical
> intelligence software companies. Our products are used to verify
> identities
> and detect misused ones.  Our most widespread application is in use by
> over
> 12,000 banks in the US.