Not infectable...

Dwight Hughes dwighth at ipa.net
Wed Mar 1 02:29:57 UTC 2000


Yes, there are many viruses in the Windoze realm that hijack a user's
email address book to resend themselves to those listed on it as if it
was a legitimate message from the user.

Just receiving the virus from someone in an email simply means they've
got the virus -- nothing more.

-- Dwight

"Andrew C. Greenberg" wrote:
> Lawson English wrote:
> >Seems to me that this is a matter for law enforcement agencies, actually.
> >Is it easier to track users of mailing lists than individual e-mails or can
> >Mr. "Garcia" get away without punishment?
> 
> I imagine that Mr. Garcia might be someone who was himself infected.





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