Subject: Melissa virus warning
Date: May 23 23:15:03 1999
From: Don Baccus - dhogaza at pacifier.com


At 10:46 PM 5/23/99 -0700, Mike Patterson wrote:
>Do not open the attached document
>
>Re: VARIED THRUSH
>Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 01:09:39 EDT
>From: FENDI297 at aol.com
>
>titled KENLIST.DOC
>
>It looks to be a Melissa Virus carrier.

I never open ANY word doc. I make people re-send
them as plain text.

Viruses are yet another good reason for not allowing
attachments to tweeters (or other) mailing lists.

My system (on its second generation of physical
machine, and having migrated from Win95 to Win98)
has never been virus-infected, and it's been up
for 3.5 years.

I never open attachments that aren't image files
(which can't contain viruses, in today's definition
of what an image file is).

I don't read disks from strangers (let them put their
data on a web page). I send lots of disks to strangers,
but that's their problem :)



- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza at pacifier.com>
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