In Regards to your letter <[log in to unmask]>:
> >         I've always been told that viruses are not transmitted via email
> > messages but rather through executable files that one downloads via ftp or
> > transfers from a floppy disk.  Is that incorrect?  Can a normal text
> > message communicate a virus via email?
 
First, this doesn't sound like a virus. But that term is also often
misused to apply to trojan horse type programs. A well know mail related
one will send itself to all persons in your alias file.
 
Second, a recent risks digest (16.58?) contained an article in which
a message containing only ascii characters could be executed on a
PC.
 
dss
 
 
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