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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (1508)1/13/1998 10:44:00 PM
From: Herb Fuller  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1894
 
MrB , Re:>>infected file via email<<

Thanks MrB , I have been their and done that .

In order for a virus scan to work the scanning program has to have the name of the virus in it . Otherwise the virus looks like it's a normal file .

I think that SI has solved their problem .

Herb



To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (1508)1/16/1998 12:24:00 PM
From: Fridrik Skulason  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1894
 
"...they can be sent through email as an attachment, but that in itself doesn't activate the virus." Well, if you get an infected Word file in the mail, and your mail reader automatically starts Word (instead of Wordpad) to display the message, you will end up with an infected system...


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