Jim Swanson ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: It seems to me this virus notification is more malignant than the putative
: virus, especially when it is accompanied by seven screensfull of forwarding
: gibberish. If someone is so clever as to embody a virus in a text file, why
: do they restrict it to files with "good times" in the name?

You've hit the nail on the head.  There is no software virus.  The warning
itself *IS* the virus.  It is a 'meme' , an urban legend, a virus which
infects minds rather than machines.  It's not your hard drive which gets
choked with thousands of copies of the virus body, its the Newsgroups
which get choked.  And it's not a CPU which carries out the instructions
and sends copies far and wide!

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Bill Beaty                                        THE SCIENCE CLUB
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