Re: Safety Bulletin Boards

[tdc@ehssun.lbl.gov (Ted M. de Castro)]

>>Last week there was an announcement of a Safety  related
>>list of internet addresses.  One of our personnel downloaded
>>the list of addresses from the net, and later found the
>>STEALTH B virus on her machine. 
>> This does not assure that the bulletin board was the source,
>>but please be careful and use virus protection when
>>downloading.  If anyone else finds the virus, please alert the
>>bulletinboard that it  may be there.


If the list was NOT an executable program - a self decompressor so some such 
- it is just plain NOT POSSIBLE that it could have been the source of a 
virus.

Also the act of downloading from a bulletin board CANNOT pass a virus.