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To: Tony Viola who wrote (127272)	2/12/2001 11:01:45 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Can't just reading an e-mail run an executable file? Jim PS...I recently contracted the KAK@40 virus through an e-mail attachment. Very clever little virus. After you clean it with McAffee, it just reinfects. More drastic measures were needed... Jim

To: Tony Viola who wrote (127272)	2/13/2001 9:49:22 PM
From: dan pearson	Respond to of 186894

Thought I would just jump in here and add that many viri come in thr form of 'scripts', snippets of code that run very much in the format of 'batch' files of the old DOS days. Watch our for any attachments with the extension of JS and VBS in particular - they indicate JavaScript and Visual Basic Scripts. Often the virus author will try and fool you by giving the attachment a phony extension that makes you thing its a picture....i.e. they'll name it filename.jpg.vbs and you'll assume that JPG is the extension, so, it looks like a Jpeg file, but, in actual fact, when you open it, it executes a script that can access your hard disk, your email address book (especially if using outlook) etc. The "I love you" virus, another script, actually went through your entire drive and replaced every jpeg file you had with a copy of itself!! Very nasty! ...dan... ginnunggap.com