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To: ISOMAN who wrote (1623)	12/31/1998 12:07:00 AM
From: Tom Swift	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1637

.Virus's can't be sent through E-mail except through attached files. TRUE TRUE -- the "Good Times" Hoax is near ten years old now and still going. Virus's can be sent in the form of a cookie at a web page TRUE Show me proof, I don't believe that this is true. That is not the way cookies work. Virus's can be sent over chat lines like IRC, ICQ, Undernet, etc... TRUE Not in general -- if executables are transferred and run, yes. Otherwise no. VIRUS's Can be sent on DISKETTE TRUE Absolutely yes. A simple email can not be a virus, however, hackers can attack your ISP, and if they (The ISP) are not top notch at what they do, you could be vulnerable to virus attack while you are online. OLDER VERSIONS of lynx are particularly bad for this. A techie Geek once tried to explain to me how you could "NUKE" someone who is online by breaking into their ISP and then doing something that sends the virus through a back Channel. I didn't understand what he was trying to say. So he showed me. He hacked a local ISP and Nuked someone (knocked them offline) This sound more like the "Ping of Death" which is not a virus but will knock someone offline if they haven't patched their software and have a known address such as 127.0.0.1.