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First, some background. The rumor has several variations, but the most common elements of the story are that the virus has "unparalleled destructive capability" and that it was created by a user on America Online...
First of all, the only things getting "severely damaged" by computational complexity are students in Computer Science 121. The last machine I know of that could possibly be physically damaged as a result of user input was an old version of the Commodore PET, a late-1970s relic...
Second of all, it is impossible for a user's machine to become infected by a virus simply because the user is reading e-mail. The text contents of e-mail are exactly that--text--and as such are simply dumped to the screen for the user to read. No hard drive is going to get erased because the user read the text of an e-mail message...
Similarly, if a user were to click on the hypertext word "chickwich," the computer might bring up a picture of a chickwich or perhaps the sound of a Harvard student saying "Mmm...good...
...says "one of the great things about the Web is that where the pages are located is essentially meaningless to the user...