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Subject: Re: Strange Virus...
From: Andrea Brenton <abrenton @ hurwitz . com>
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 17:14:01 -0500
To: Firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM

        There is a virus newsgroup at comp.virus!

At 01:58 PM 12/3/96 -0500, you wrote:
* > 
* > What a moron!
* > 
* > ----------
* > From:  Warren Moore[SMTP:warren .
 moore @
 cbis .
 com]
* > Sent:  Tuesday, December 03, 1996 1:09 AM
* > To:  firewalls-digest
* > Subject:  Strange Virus...
* > 
* > There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet.
* > If you receive an e-mail message with the subject line "Free Money,"
* > DO NOT read the message. DELETE it immediately, UNPLUG your computer,
* > then BURN IT to ASHES in a government-approved toxic waste disposal
* > INCINERATOR.
* 
* 	[satirical rant deleted]
* 
* Actually, I thought it was rather funny. And just think, if everyone who
* actually BELIEVED it, followed the instructions, network security would have
* been improved by a huge margin in one fell stroke.
* 
* - jcp
* 
* -- 
* =========================================================================
* Jody C. Patilla						jcp @
 tis .
 com
* Trusted Information Systems				Glenwood, Md.
* 



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Andrea Brenton			Hurwitz Group, Inc
IS Manager			29 Crafts St
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 hurwitz .
 com		Newton, MA  02158


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 - Bertrand Russell

Views expressed are my own and not that of my employer or clients.


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