From: "Frans Schryer" <FRANS-AT-css.uoguelph.ca>
Date:          Thu, 13 Mar 1997 14:47:46 GMT-5
Subject:       Re: Email virus warning


Some virus warnings may be hoaxes, but there are REAL computer 
viruses (created by mischievous hackers) which CAN be transmitted by 
downloading software from an electronic mail conference or from a 
diskette inserted into one of the drives. I know a number of people 
whose systems have "crashed" or had data contaminated because they 
did not have (or did not have a good enough) virus detector.



> Subject:        Re: Email virus warning
> Date sent:      Thu, 13 Mar 97 09:15:03 -0800
> From:           <kazys-AT-lightlink.com>
> To:             <bourdieu-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU>
> Send reply to:  bourdieu-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU

> This is, of course, not true. These kind of hoaxes float around the 
> internet fairly often. "Good Times" is the original one, this is a 
> variant. The "virus" does reproduce, but only in the form of the warning 
> which well-meaning people send to each other. 
> 
> What, I wonder, would Bourdieu say about them (it's a bit too late in the 
> evening for me to bother trying to figure that out)?
> 
> Kazys Varnelis
> Southern California Institute of Architecture
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