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From: Don Henderson <>
Subject: VIRUS ALERT HOAXES
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 11:43:17 -0500

Dear All;

If you get a message describing an Internet Virus, please check the
following web site, BEFORE you send messages to everyone you know. These
messages clog the internet, and all the lists and digests. 99% of them are
made up by Morons and Idiots, and are TOTALLY FALSE!

U.S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Computer Incident Advisory Capability

http://ciac.llnl.gov/

Scroll down to the: "For Your Consideration" section, and then to "CIAC
Internet Hoaxes Page"

Following is the description they have written:

"JOIN THE CREW"
Circulating the Internet is an email message entitled "Join the Crew". For a
virus to spread, it must be executed. Reading a mail message does not
execute the mail message. Trojans and viruses have been found as executable
attachments to mail messages, but they must be extracted and executed to do
any harm. CIAC still affirms that reading E-mail, using typical mail agents,
can not activate malicious code delivered in or with the message.

Please copy the address for future reference.
Thanks
Don Henderson
Georgetown, Ontario

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