Harmon Seaver writes:
> 
>       Well, you do remember, perhaps, a little thing called the "Arpanet
> Worm" that shut down the entire Internet a few years ago? It worked thru
> e-mail. Not all that hard to do, really. I'm sure you've seen uuencoded 
> files that become executables again, right?

Yes, but these executables have to be RUN in order to infect a machine,
right?  I think this is where the confusion is.  Just downloading
something through e-mail (and not running it) is an unlikely way to
"contract" a computer virus.

-David

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