FW: FWD>URGENT E-MAIL WARNING (fwd)

[James Harbeck]

        Not real. It is IMPOSSIBLE to get a virus from an email unless it
has an attached program that you actually RUN. An email, as far as you
cmoputer is concerned, is just a string of characters which pass by
uninspected. It could no more get a virus from an email than your postman
could get ideas from a sealed letter which he delivers to you. Again, only
if you get an attached program, load it into your computer and tell it to
run it is it possible for a virus to be transmitted.
        These email virus hoaxes have been going around for years, like
bad chain letters.