>Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 12:07:45 -0500 >From: "P. Divirgilio" <[log in to unmask]> >Dear Netters, > I found an article from November 1994 about what > happens every time a virus letter is circulated. The > article is in Science & Vie, no. 926. p. 7 and is > titled Le virus de "Saint-Antoine" infecte deja > Internet. It is estimated that a single letter > modelled on the chain letters with 20 copies produces > 3,200,000 letters on the Internet in very short > schrift. Viruses do not travel on email. The disease > is the letter itself according to the article which > consumes bandwidth satsfying the desire of the sender. > The same implications of guilt as the chain letter > accompany the virus letter asssuring its spread. Since > this list represents the broadest spectrum of the > Internet it seemed the best place to stop the letters > which indeed are the sum of the virus. -- Paul. I hardly consider increased bandwidth destructive. 3.2 million letters is pee-pee on the internet. I get a ton of worthless messages, and I don't consider them destructive either.... just delete... If any drives were crashed by this message, then they were bound to be crashed anyway by normal traffic. I don't want to start this E-mail thing again, but yes, there are a number of ways to transport virus infected software via E-mail. There are even ways to get mailers to provide access to a privileged shell. If there is a virus going around it's the "E-mail is safe" virus... ________________________________________________________________________________ Brent Hammond <[log in to unmask]> Digital Information Systems Corporation (DISC)