Computer Viruses - How can you pick them up ???

Posted by Country Boy on December 29, 2000 at 15:34:37 from (209.115.159.100):

Had a little virus here on my computer this week and have now gotten rid of it. A friend downloaded some program which searched it out and destroyed it. I now have 30 days protection for free and can subscribe to that one or apparently numerous others. Meanwhile, here's a few questions that you might be able to help me with.

1. Does a virus that arrives by email have to arrive on an attatchment or an enclosure (which would have to be opened) or can it arrive in an ordinary message without attatchment(s)?

2. Can you get a virus by going into a web site? For example, say someone posts a website and I hit on the site, can I get the virus that way?

3. If I've got a virus, does it go out with all of the mail that I send, even if they are just regular message mail?

4. Since I had this anti-virus program loaded up, I have had some difficulty getting a connection into my email server. Do you think that this might be a result of the anti-virus program?

Meanwhile, I have emailed everyone that I can remember emailing and let them know what happened. I'd appreciate some answers to these questions if you can help out. Thanks

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