"John Mazor" wrote in message news:jwM8j.9980$rZ3.4647@trnddc07...

"Morgans" wrote in message
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"Stefan" wrote

Serious virus warnings are *never* distributed by e-mails like the one you posted.
Actually, this e-mail itself can be considered a kind of virus, because it fills
mailboxes, wastes people's time and probably causes some friendly christmas mails to
be deleted unread.

Actually, I would not say never.

Where I work, there are a lot of computers networked together, and a lot of people
bringing things (files and software) from home and sticking into them, and that adds up
to a great chance of something undesirable getting into the system, and spreading if a
warning is not passed.

That is how I got this warning, and admittedly, I did not spend as much time checking
on it, as I would have done if I had been at home.

This may have been bogus but there is some valid history behind these things. Back in
the DOS days any way that you could get the victim's PC to execute just two lines of DOS
commands would have been fatal:

cd C:\
delete *.*

Now that I think about it, all it takes is

del c:\*.*

It's been a while since I had to know DOS commands.