Re: OT Virus Warning-Dennis

From: "David Sidwell, USU Dept. of Theatre Arts" <dsidwell@cc.usu.edu>

Hello all,

Computer viruses cannot be transmitted via normal email. You can get
viruses from diskettes, through downloading something, and possibly
through an email attachment, but email does not provide a means by which
viruses can be given to another machine. Especially if it is an Atari. So
rest easy my friends, and worry about viruses in our irises.

David Sidwell


On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Glenn Simmons wrote:

> From: Glenn Simmons <glsimmon@swbell.net>
> 
> 
> 
> Slc.Dennis Bishop wrote:
> 
> > From: starlord@ptw.com (Slc.Dennis Bishop)
> >
> > >From: Glenn Simmons <glsimmon@swbell.net>
> > >
> > >If you receive mail from someone offering : WIN A HOLIDAY, don't open
> > >it!  It will destroy everything on your hard drive.  I just received
> > >this VIRUS warning from a friend in Canada via Australia.
> > >
> > >Glenn
> > >>
> >  HaHaHaHa!!! That's about the biggest of the FAKE jokes of the
> >  last few years. Who ever stated it is sitting back enjoying all
> >  the worry over something thats totaly 100% fake!
> >
> >  Plus, even if it was real, it still could NOT hurt my totaly
> >  awesome machine!!!
> >
> >  Reson 9,999 for owning an Atari TT/030 IBM/Mac Virus can't hurt
> >  our machines.
> >
> >  Reson 10,000 for owning an Atari ... Operationg System is 100%
> >  SAFE from Virus ... OS is in ROM chips.
> >
> >  Now if we could only make our Iris as safe!
> >
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> 
> After reading John's message there is nothing like feeling like an idiot!
> :)  Now I must thank you for the good laugh also Dennis!  :)  I have never
> heard of "fake" viruses before, this is a new one on me.
> 
> Dennis, I have 4 Amigas besides the IBM's.  The Amigas also have their
> operating system on ROM's and I have had a virus on them in the past so that
> is no protection.  Do you have a hard drive on your Atari?  How about a
> floppy drive?  Or maybe a modem?  I'm not trying to worry you Dennis but the
> ROM is no protection.  If you ever share floppies with someone or download
> anything you may get something you don't want.  I have a few hundred
> floppies for my Amigas and I had to go through each one, examine it and
> clean it if it had the virus on it.  I never did find out which floppy the
> virus came in on but the virus would store itself in RAM and infect every
> floppy I inserted.  I found out about the virus when one of my floppies quit
> working properly.  Enough with the story, point made.  I like my Amigas too
> Dennis and they can outperform the IBM's in many ways even as old as they
> are but they can still get sick!
> 
> Glenn
> 
> --
> Glenn & Linda Simmons
> Springfield, Southwest Missouri, USDA Zone 6
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> 
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