If you delete it from the Recycle bin, it will be gone. The mail can
actually be opened without executing the virus. It's the attachment, when
extracted from what looks like a Zip icon, that initiates the executable.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Simmons [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 9:29 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [TN] Don't Open Attachments!!!!!!


Rich, when you say "erase" you mean "delete",eh? to the trash, then dump the
trash?
with the newer versions of windows, i never feel like anything is really
gone.

Mark Simmons

Richard Hamilton wrote:

> Reminder to all:
>
> There is a very obnoxious virus running around, and the sudden rush of
email
> with attachments is a sign that it may be out there on TechNet!!
>
> I worked with a friend of mine this weekend whose company got clobbered by
> it and it is no fun!!
>
> Just be real sure of any email with attachments that you get. If you get
one
> and you are not sure, just do like I do, erase it. The subject of the
email
> may look very real. My friends computer ended up sending an email out that
> was a couple of months old with a legitimate Subject.
>
> What it does is get into your email, Outlook specifically, and starts
> sending itself to others in your address book without recording any
> indication of having sent anything in the Outbox. Then it begins to set
all
> of the MS Office files on your computer to a file length of '0'.
>
> Good luck to all!!
>
> By the way, I will not send any attachments to anyone via TechNet, so if
you
> see one attached to my address, erase it!
>
> Richard Hamilton
> Clemar Mfg. / Rain Bird
> [log in to unmask]
>
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