From: JeffreyP [jeffrey@mail1.nai.net]
Sent: Monday, October 26, 1998 3:27 AM
To: Charles Hymes
Subject: Could you elaborate?

My cousin insists that while working for the DoD they do indeed have a email virus. Here's his email, and could you elaborate on this??? I don't believe it...
 
you can believe whatever you want but denial and ignorance catches
everyone. By the way I've developed a lot of software over the years for the
DoD that was designed specifically for detecting software virues much more
malicious than email and much more detremental to society. The system I saw
it happen on was purposely configured with email viruses just like this one.
We were contracted to do it on purpose just so we could develop the
anti-virus software that detects it. There's alot more, besides file
attachments, that can come along with an email message than you and your
mythological website followers must know. If I was permitted I would email
you a sample just to prove it to your own 'eyeballs'.

As for the source of the email I forwarded you, I can't confirm his
statement nor do I care to. It was forwarded to me and I was just passing it
on to people I know. Sorry if I hit a nerve. But there are people I work
with who understand it is more serious than you believe it to be. Also,
don't be so narrow as to think that it only may involve a MicroShaft email
product. There are many more OS out there, some far more superior than Mr.
Gates' beta versions that he keeps releasing in mass quantities at bargain
prices. Sure, the chances you will ever see an email virus like this on your
desktop are about as good as the bubonic plague being released from the
vault. But if it does, your Norton's, McAfee's and Gates will be scrambling.