"Love Bug" or Not, Employees Unlikely to Forward Warnings; Vault.com Survey Reveals that only 26.8% of Employees Forward E-mail Warnings.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 2000 Even with the threat of aggressive viruses like the recent "Love Bug A famous virus that arrived as an e-mail attachment using the "double extension trick." The file name was "I LOVE YOU.TXT.vbs." The .vbs extension slipped by users who thought it was a safe text (.TXT) file. " circulating around the Internet, most workplace e-mail users are not likely to forward warnings or advisories, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a new survey from Vault.com. The just-released Vault.com Survey of E-mail Behavior in the Workplace reveals that only 26.8% of employees are likely to forward unsolicited e-mail warnings or advisories. Some employees expressed concern that these types of e-mails are often hoaxes or false alarms. Say survey respondents: -- "Sometimes the warnings themselves are the fronts for a virus to be passed along." -- "Many of the unsolicited e-mails about viruses have turned out to be hoaxes, so I wouldn't forward these." -- "Why contribute to the spam problem?" -- "Warnings are bogus 99.9% of the time." Based on responses from 1,004 employees, the full Vault.com Survey of E-mail Behavior in the Workplace examines topics ranging from sending and receiving improper e-mails to the use of the "Bcc" feature. The full survey results will be made available at Vault.com on May 17, 2000. In addition to studying workplace issues, Vault.com is well-known for its award-winning "insider" company and industry profiles on companies such as Xerox (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : XRX XRX Xerox Corporation (stock symbol) ), Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER mer Among the Cheremi and Udmurt peoples of Russia, a sacred grove where people of several villages gathered periodically to hold religious festivals and sacrifice animals to nature gods. ), Dell (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : DELL), and Coca Cola (NYSE:KO). About Vault.com Vault.com (formerly VaultReports.com), The Workplace Network(TM), is the Internet's leading destination for career information and management. Vault.com's mission is to help professionals advance their careers through "insider" career information, online networking, online courses, job listings, and more. Just named one of the "100 Best Sites for 2000" and "the best way to scope out potential employers" by Yahoo! Internet Life Yahoo! Internet Life was a monthly magazine published by Ziff-Davis, which licensed the name from Yahoo!, a well known search engine website. It was created and launched by Barry Golson, the former executive editor of Playboy and TV guide. , Vault.com provides "insider" guides on over 3,000 companies and 70 industries. It also offers the much-praised Electronic WaterCooler(TM), the Internet's first-ever network of expert-moderated message boards for employees. In addition, Vault.com offers a free job board that contains over 200,000 job postings - one of the largest job databases on the Internet. Vault.com was founded in 1996 by H.S. Hamadeh, Samer Hamadeh, and Mark Oldman, together recently named to the "Silicon Alley 100: New York's 100 Most Influential Internet Executives." |
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