[TowerTalk] Re: Attachments

Lee Buller k0wa@southwind.net
Wed, 24 Dec 1997 08:19:29 -0600


At 11:15 PM 12/23/97 -0500, you wrote:
>At 04:49 PM 12/23/97 +0000, K4SB wrote:
>>No attachment, nor any email is capable of harming a computer. Emails
>>are merely text. While an attachment could contain a virus, it is simply
>>impossible for it to start on its own. Just scan them BEFORE you run it
>>if it is an .exe or .com.
>>
>>73
>>
>>Ed
>>
Well, I've have had Word 6.0 documents sent to me that carried the WAZU
virus.  here is the rule at my work place and at home.  All attachments are
suspect.  All are scanned for viruses.

Lee
k0wa@southwind.net


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