Response fm software expert re virus warning and we don't know enough to know who is right!
A. Bennett Wilson, jr.
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Title:
Response fm software expert re virus warning and we don't know enough to know who is right!
Creator:
A. Bennett Wilson, jr.
Date:
6/30/1999
Text:
Dick Brandt wrote:
>
> A. Bennett Wilson, jr. wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for your news. This just in from the computer group we belong
> > to. More later.
> > Love, Janet
>
> Thanks for the thought, Janet, but I think you should know that this is a hoax.
> Here's the write-up on it from Norton's Antivirus Research Center. Clicking on
> the line below should take you to this page in your browser:
>
> <URL Redacted>
>
> Don't feel bad, but there are lots and lots of hoaxes floating around on the
> internet. Almost any e-mail that warns of a virus or asks you to generate masses
> of e-mail for some kind purpose is being propogated by someone who's up to no
> good - collecting lists of e-mail addresses for other purposes, for instance -
> or maliciously trying to clog up someone's mail server by generating a wave of
> e-mail messages from well-meaning people.
>
> For more on the subject and a current list (interesting stuff, by the way):
>
> <URL Redacted>
>
> Thinking of you,
>
> Dick Brandt
>
> --------------------
> <Email Address Redacted>
> <URL Redacted> (GLpro Foundations)
This is the first and last time we respond to request to send along
something to lots of others.
The Wilsons
>
> A. Bennett Wilson, jr. wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for your news. This just in from the computer group we belong
> > to. More later.
> > Love, Janet
>
> Thanks for the thought, Janet, but I think you should know that this is a hoax.
> Here's the write-up on it from Norton's Antivirus Research Center. Clicking on
> the line below should take you to this page in your browser:
>
> <URL Redacted>
>
> Don't feel bad, but there are lots and lots of hoaxes floating around on the
> internet. Almost any e-mail that warns of a virus or asks you to generate masses
> of e-mail for some kind purpose is being propogated by someone who's up to no
> good - collecting lists of e-mail addresses for other purposes, for instance -
> or maliciously trying to clog up someone's mail server by generating a wave of
> e-mail messages from well-meaning people.
>
> For more on the subject and a current list (interesting stuff, by the way):
>
> <URL Redacted>
>
> Thinking of you,
>
> Dick Brandt
>
> --------------------
> <Email Address Redacted>
> <URL Redacted> (GLpro Foundations)
This is the first and last time we respond to request to send along
something to lots of others.
The Wilsons
Citation
A. Bennett Wilson, jr., “Response fm software expert re virus warning and we don't know enough to know who is right!,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 1, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/211660.
