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From: "Ken Nelson" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Snow White Virus
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 22:10:22 -0500
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I have my e-mail set so that ANY mail with attachments is filtered to a
quarrantine folder. When I see that some mail has come into that folder, I
open the folder and if I do not know the sender I delete the message
unopened. This has a price. My wife is very angry at me. Many of her friends
are into the chain letter type of thing where some cutesy pie poem gets
forwarded as an attachment to hundreds of friends and each of those friends
sends it to hundreds of theirs and so on and so on. When such a letter comes
in, it is deleted. It is deleted because I can not trust them to know about
viruses and so they could be unwittingly transmitting one. I do not distrust
their motives, only their PC knowledge. But it comes at a price. Telling
them that they could be unwittingly transmitting a virus does nothing to
slow their irresponsible practice.
Ken Nelson


----- Original Message -----
From: "bd" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Snow White Virus


> ??I don't understand
> 1. why do you need to download it?
> 2. Can't you just send it out via delete? I get this obnoxious bug
> sometimes 2-3 times a day and so far have just deleted it with - as far as
> I'm aware - no ill effects. 3. Someone has said that a virus can infect
you
> even if you do not open the attachment. Elucidation?
>
> Of course there are many more things I don't understand, but this will do
> for now.
>
> Barbara Harris
>
>
> Richard wrote:
>
> Half the time when I get sent a copy it causes my ISP
> > to drop out and I have spent as much as an hour trying to
> > get Snowhite downloaded so I can receive my mail. I did not
> > open the attachment, it did no damage on my machine but it
> > has cost me a lot of time and all of us a lot of money.
> >
> > Richard Brogger
> >
> > Bob Geldart wrote:
> > >
> > > At 01:05 AM 1/19/2001, you wrote:
> > > >Fi-fi on that nasty person!!! May they burn in the world of crashed
> hard
> > > >disks and destroyed FATs.
> > >
> > > A little compassion.... In all likelihood, that person may not have
> > > realized what was happening, or even that it was sent from their
> machine.
> > >
> > > Bob Geldart
> > > Maynard, MA
> >
> >
>

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