DO NOT read the message. If you receive this mail or file, do not download it. It has a virus that rewrites your hard drive, obliterating anything on it. Please be careful and forward this mail to anyone you care about not only at this university. Please read and understand that I will explain below before you forward or act upon ANY such message that you might receive.
Computer viruses can circulate via e-mail but only in attachments.
That is, if someone sends you a word processing document, program, or other type of file attached to an e-mail message, it could contain a virus, just as a file you get on a diskette could contain a virus. You will not get the virus by reading the e-mail message. This is always good practice. The same advice holds if you download a file from the internet or get one on a diskette or from a dial-in source. Note that the messages you get from off-campus should all have an attachment called Headers.822 attached to it.