4 May
2000
4 May
'00
11:36 a.m.
On May 4, 15:00, allisonp(a)world.std.com wrote:
It's an email worm that takes advantage of MS Active-x controls.
This is a wide spreading fast mover and packs a payload.
Locally several companies have reported it and it was only launched
less than a day ago.
WWW.f-secure.com has details.
We've already had one hard drive wiped out by it :-(
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
4 May
4 May
1:13 p.m.
Re:
I had to explain to several people here why I wasn't worried :)
In the radio/TV reports I've heard about it, I've
yet to hear any "expert" explain the simplest method
of avoiding this (and similar) viruses:
Don't use a mailer that's going to be executing any incoming code.
So, two of us here (Pegasus users) are happy, while the
MS Outlook users here are paranoid :)
If you're curious about Pegasus (a Win95/98/NT mail client),
check out www.pegasus.usa.com ... it's free.
Personally, I prefer to use elm ... and usually do for most of
my important mail. I like being able to say that
I use a "steam-powered mail program".
Stan Sieler sieler(a)allegro.com
www.allegro.com/sieler/wanted/index.html www.allegro.com/sieler
It's an
email worm that takes advantage of MS Active-x controls.
We've already had one
hard drive wiped out by it :-( 
2:42 p.m.
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Stan Sieler wrote:
Re:
I had to explain to several people here why I wasn't worried :)
In the radio/TV reports I've heard about it, I've
yet to hear any "expert" explain the simplest method
of avoiding this (and similar) viruses:
Don't use a mailer that's going to be executing any incoming code.
So, two of us here (Pegasus users) are happy, while the
MS Outlook users here are paranoid :)
If you're curious about Pegasus (a Win95/98/NT mail client),
check out www.pegasus.usa.com ... it's free.
Personally, I prefer to use elm ... and usually do for most of
my important mail. I like being able to say that
I use a "steam-powered mail program".
Pine works well also, but I think it puts out a little more smoke :)
- don
It's
an email worm that takes advantage of MS Active-x controls.
We've already had
one hard drive wiped out by it :-(
Stan Sieler sieler(a)allegro.com
www.allegro.com/sieler/wanted/index.html www.allegro.com/sieler
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