Re: offending: question?

[Dave Derenzo <dave@UIC.EDU>]

Ruth et. al.,


That's sort of right, but file extensions can be hidden.  So if you

name the file virus.txt.exe and hide the .exe extension, you can fool

someone into thinking it is a text file.  Clicking on the file then

executes the virus program.  Many viruses work that way.


Dave Derenzo, RSO

University of Illinois at Chicago


At 12:48 PM 1/28/02, you wrote:

> As I understand,
>
> there is no problem in opening the email message--- 
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> as long as you do not open any attachments.
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>
> Please correct me if this is wrong.  
>
> Thanks,   Jerry
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>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
>
> > From:
> >
> > RuthWeiner@AOL.COM 
> >
> > To: michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu ; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu 
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> > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 7:56 AM
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> > Subject: Re: offending
> >
> >
> > Just an additional note: 
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> >
> > If I don't recognize the sender of an email, I delete the email without opening it.  Re the latest virus: the title "photos from my party" put me off, so I didn't open it.  So far, this kind of "personal filtering" has worked for me. 
> >
> >
> >
> > Ruth Weiner, Ph. D. 
> >
> > ruthweiner@aol.com 



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