"Smilie, Sam" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Bill Smith wrote:
>
>"In a word, no. A virus can only be delivered as an attachment to an
>email."
>
>The latest that I have read disproves Bill's argument.  Although
>conventional wisdom is that virus' cannot be transmitted via email,
>except through attachments, I have seen some emails and e-articles
>(can't remember where right now, I'm on several lists) that talk about >a
new breed of virus that can transmit via an email.  I have not seen >this
new critter up close and personal yet, so it may be just >theoretically
possible, but we can no longer afford to dismiss email >virus' out of hand.


Hi,
     I've heard of this type of virus, except what I heard is that people
are using email readers ability to web pages to include Java code in an
email which creates the "virus" on the computer.  I don't think this is a
concern for the original questioner since it sounded to me like they had a
pure text reader.  Now those of us using Netscape, Outlook, Outlook
Express, etc.  might be a different story.

HTH,
Donald Gaither

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