important suggestion re ILOVEYOU virus

[Aaron E. Drews]

on 5/5/00 8:48 AM, Kim & Rima McKinzey wrote:

> Another important suggestion is to have a Mac.
>
> Rima
>

>From what  I understand, it's a macro virus.  That is one thing Macs are not
immune to (speaking from experience).  Macs can quite easily execute
scripts, which I think is what the love bug is.

Macs may, in fact, be immune.  But don't allow yourself to fall into a false
sense of security.

If Macintosh is a type of rain coat, and a rain coat is one of the thousands
of euphemisms for a condom, it doesn't necessarily follow that you won't
catch anything :-).


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