Hi Tweets:

Mickey Gibson forwarded a message that contained the following:

>"Don't open any e-mail entitled "Join The Crew" . It will erase everything
>on your hard drive. Forward this letter
>out to as many people as you can. This is a new, very malicious =
>virus <snip>

A similar "alert" scenario was sent throughout AOL a few months ago. AOL
assured everyone that you cannot get a computer virus from email. Opening a
piece of email will not unleash a virus. However, opening an attachment to
email can release a virus. The rule given on AOL time and again is, if you
don't know the sender, don't open any email attachment. On AOL it turned out
that the sender of the "alert" was the perpetrator of a hoax, and no such
virus existed.

Jim Brewster
Kent Washington