Not so fast, according to the latest Windows magazine (May 1997, p312)
McAfee has uncovered just such a virus. The article says nothing about it
damaging a hard drive, but it does appear to propagate itself by
automatically creating email messages to anyone in you address book.
Gary
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> From: Jim Isbell <JISBELLJR@mail.utexas.edu>
> To: VEENET@aol.com
> Cc: vintage-race@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Virus warning!!
> Date: Thursday, April 17, 1997 9:59 AM
>
> You are propogating an urban myth and wasting bandwidth. There is NO
SUCH
> VIRUS. It would be impossible to program sucha virus. The worst that
could
> be done, if you recieve your Email directly into your word processor,
which
> most people do not, would be to screw up the word processor setup.
>
> I am a programmer, take my word for it. This hoax has been around on the
> net for over three years and it is still just a hoax.
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