Hello,

Actually yes it is true that you can ship an executable as a clickable icon
in mail to a Win95 user.
And I agree with Greg in that I do not know of any 'built-in' virus
anything in Win95.
I myself have not heard of this AOL4Free business. Personally, I would not
have AOL if it WAS free. Nothing against the company mind you, I just want
a raw Internet connection.


Larry (I love those personalized sigs!) Crouch
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From: Stigers, Gregory - ANDOVER <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Wednesday, April 16, 1997 4:59 PM
Subject: FW: Urban Legend Alert

>I received the following from a co-worker, and it has 'urban legend'
>written all over it. First of all, for those who aren't using it, Win 95
>does not come with an anti-virus. And I would be surprised if one user
>was running two anti-virus programs simultaneously. I do not know of any
>way to send an email message to a Win 95 client that would just execute
>when the message was opened. I would think that it would take sending an
>executable as a clickable icon. And if you wrote a Trojan horse, would
>you actually tell someone what you were doing as you were doing it, or
>would you wait until you were done, if you told them at all?
>
>Does anyone out there know if this is for real, or if it has been
>confirmed as nonsense? I have to wonder if AOL has a promotion, and
>someone is trying to scuttle it.

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