Subject: Re: Snow White - Help!!

> Ron,
> You can't get the virus unless you open the executable file which is the
> attachment.
> I would encourage you to get and use and keep up to date a good anti-virus
> program, or maybe you already do. I have Norton, from Symantec, and it can
> be set to check all incoming mail. It has caught Snowhite several times.
> Go to this site at Symantec for more info:
>     http://service1.symantec.com/sarc/sarc.nsf/html/W95.Hybris.gen.html
> Jerry
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "The Bus Depot" <busdepot@EMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 8:50 PM
>
> > Sorry for the off-topic post, but I'm worried.
> >
> > Before I left work today, I downloaded my email (using Outlook 2000).
The
> > dreaded virus email from hahaha@sexyfun.net was among the ones I
received.
> > (Of course I have no idea whose computer it originated from.)
> >
> > I immediately hit "delete" once I saw the dreaded subject line.  I did
> _not_
> > open the attachment, or double click on the email (although the "snow
> white"
> > message text is immediately visable on the preview pane in Outlook when
I
> > first see it).  I am not clear on whether simply _receiving_ the email
and
> > seeing it in the preview pane could have given me the virus, or whether
I
> > would have had to actually open the attachment to get it (which I did
> not).
> > I couldn't find the answer on sexyfun.net or symantec.com . Can somebody
> > clue me in?  I'm don't know much about viruses but I think I heard that
> you
> > were safe unless you opened the attachment.  If so I'm worrying over
> > nothing, but I want to make sure.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ron Salmon
> > The Bus Depot, Inc.
> > www.busdepot.com
> > (215) 234-VWVW
> >
>