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From: "arlene" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Snow White Virus
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 12:01:11 -0500
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How do you set this up Specifics, please (I have Outlook Express)
Thanks
Arlene
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Nelson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Snow White Virus


> 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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