Subject: Tweeters Virus Concerns
Date: Aug 28 21:37:39 2003
From: Rob Saecker - rsaecker at thurston.com


At 7:07 PM -0400 8/28/03, Warsuet7 at cs.com wrote:
>Yes. . .I've been thinking the same thing. Why don't we just use
>"T-" at the beginning of the subject line?

Tweets,

adding T or TWEETERS to the subject line makes no difference when it
comes to viruses. The current batch going around are capable of
copying a subject line from someone's mailbox, and using it as the
subject line in an email with a virus. They do the same with the
"From:" address, so even if you recognize the name, there is no
guarantee that the email is really from that person. However, one
thing to be clear about; you cannot be infected by a simple email. If
there is no attachment, there is no virus. So any email without an
attachment is safe to open (well, unless it's spam, but that's
another topic). This may be belaboring the obvious, but some of the
posts here made me wonder if the distinction was clear.
--
Rob Saecker
rsaecker at thurston.com