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shaktiman Senior Member United Kingdom 1226 Posts	Posted - 08 Mar 2003 : 13:59:49 I recieved an email from my brother in law. I certainly don't think he would send an email like it & I find it very hard to believe that he would send it to me if he was sending it. I would tell his father! The email has the subject ha ha & instructs the recipient(after listing alot of peoples email addresses) that if they dont send the email on(thereby making it an email chain letter) that they will lose someone they love deeply! but if they send the message on that they will have good luck. It also has a couple of very silly childish verses. My brother in law uses a pc probably I think he has Windows 98 on it. Am I likely to be infected?(a few of you may recieve the email if this is the case) & has anybody got advice for anti virus software that my brother in law should use? shaktiman Quadra 840av, prettymuchmaxedout8xcd drive,3 monitors 15" & 14" & 14" os 8.1 , 12 meg ram, 500 meg hard drive Performa400(asleepintheattick)
foetoid Full Member USA 554 Posts	Posted - 08 Mar 2003 : 14:17:27 quote: I recieved an email from my brother in law. I certainly don't think he would send an email like it & I find it very hard to believe that he would send it to me if he was sending it. I would tell his father! The email has the subject ha ha & instructs the recipient(after listing alot of peoples email addresses) that if they dont send the email on(thereby making it an email chain letter) that they will lose someone they love deeply! but if they send the message on that they will have good luck. It also has a couple of very silly childish verses. My brother in law uses a pc probably I think he has Windows 98 on it. Am I likely to be infected?(a few of you may recieve the email if this is the case) & has anybody got advice for anti virus software that my brother in law should use? shaktiman Quadra 840av, prettymuchmaxedout8xcd drive,3 monitors 15" & 14" & 14" os 8.1 , 12 meg ram, 500 meg hard drive Performa400(asleepintheattick) If this is a virus, which it probably isn't depending on whether or not his email service is all web based, it probably won't effect you if you were on a Mac... ________________ foetoid, that's (fee-toy-duh) http://www.foetoid.doesntexist.com
Gothikon Full Member Australia 537 Posts	Posted - 08 Mar 2003 : 14:33:41 It just sounds like a stupid chain email to me, trash and forget. I'm 99% certain that of the few mac virii there are none can infect a machine by simply reading an email. leave that position to and Windows PC with outlook! -------- LC 2, LC 3, Q605, Perf 638, Colour Classic (160 603e) 6100, 7200, PTP 225 (Quad 604), PM 9600, G4 Cube
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 08 Mar 2003 : 22:14:13 Might be a virus you should notify him none the less. -danny You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 08 Mar 2003 : 22:19:34 you could laugh at him because he's using a PEESEE Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 08 Mar 2003 : 22:22:53 quote: you could laugh at him because he's using a PEESEE Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide Now thats not nice . -danny You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3
G4from128k Full Member USA 873 Posts	Posted - 10 Mar 2003 : 06:19:52 Sounds like a mental virus to me. If your brain's OS has "Superstition" or "Religion" turned on at start-up, then you might get personally infected. Its usually the more spiritual people that fall for the concocted promises and threats of karmic retribution that then resend such e-mails. I especially like the chain letters that explicitly state that "they work even if you aren't superstitious." LOL! But seriously, I would not worry too much about Mac virii, especially about getting them via e-mail unless you use Outlook and Office. I think some of the Word macro viruses are cross-platform compatible. But you might want to ask your brother about the e-mail. If he claims that he didn't send the e-mail, then he may have a virus that he is spending to his less-enlightened peecee-enslaved friends. G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist by Night: Colonel of Truth, Justice, and the Macintosh Way Reserve Officer in 68kMLA Cantankerous Coot Contingent

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