Re: Don't get the virus... I did

[Peter Evans peterev@xxxxxxxx]

On the ILOVEYOU worm:

>The only consolation was that I didn't
>spread it to anyone else.

In part because you have the good sense to use a mail client other than MS
Outlook. Network Associates (aka McAfee) is hardly famed for downplaying
"virus threats" -- see http://kumite.com/myths/ , passim -- but makes it
clear that this worm is spread by not by email software in general but by
MS Outlook (Express) in particular: see
http://vil.nai.com/villib/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=98617 . How extraordinary
that the long AP article about it in today's paper doesn't mention this.
Didn't he bother to think, or to ask? Has he been lubricated by
Micro$oft's PR department? Or is he perhaps unaware that alternatives to
MS Outlook (Express) exist?

>I suggest you speak to the FBI.

I love it!
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Peter Evans