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 David S. Stodolsky, PhD Internet: [log in to unmask] Tornskadestien 2, st. th. (C) Tel.: + 45 38 33 03 30 DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark Fax: + 45 38 33 88 80