Gordon J. Holtslander (holtsg@duke.usask.ca)
Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:00:07 -0600 (CST)
Hi
The message entitled Important Message From Alan Bradford should be
deleted from your email. It is harmless unless you execute the file
attatched to it.
It contains an attatchment with the melissa virus. This virus
will infect computers that have the two software packages:
Microsoft Word 97 or Word 2000 for word processing and
Microsoft Outlook for email (Outlook Express, however, is not affected)
If you have this combination of software delete the message without
opening or executing the attatchment.
If you do not have this combination of software you are not at risk.
Thank you Jeffrey for pointing this out.
In addition to Jeffrey's reference see:
http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_3233.html
This is a nasty virus and has wreaked havoc (mostly by bringing down
mailservers)
Gord
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Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology
holtsg@duke.usask.ca 112 Science Place
http://duke.usask.ca/~holtsg University of Saskatchewan
Tel (306) 966-4433 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Fax (306) 966-4461 Canada S7N 5E2
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