| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 27 Oct 2000 at 11:09:56 |
| Subject: | Re: new virus alert for pc users |
Gareth Griffiths said,
> [SNIP the virus alert]
> Puh-lease. I've always found it curious the way people who send these virus
> alerts KNOW that the receivers of it are going to be dumb and send it on.
> Using language like "If you get it you will lose everything! Someone from
> the Internet will get your passwords!" etc. is just plain nonsense.
It *is* a virus, similar to the I LOVE YOU virus. The only difference is
that the earlier ones rely on people being gullible enough to forward
them manually, whereas newer viruses rely on people being stupid enough
to enable their computers to forward them automatically.
The goal is the same in either case, to clog up the mail system with more
crap than a Digitiser mailing list.
Neil
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