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

["Andrew J. Glass" ajglass@xxxxxxxx]

If anyone ever wondered whether Microsoft enjoys a monopoly on the desktop,
the "Love Bug" coverage should end all doubt. Few stories even mentioned
that it was program specific, something anyone could easily ascertain if he
or she examined the code. Of course, it helped to be able to read the virus
program in XyWrite, running on OS/2 




On Fri, 05 May 2000 09:37:44 -0400, Steve Crutchfield wrote:

Permit me a bit of smugness here.... the ILOVEYOU Email bug hit my
agency of 500 people yesterday. Fortunately, no serious damage
occurred. However, as one of the technological luddites who clings to
OS/2, my PC at work was not in any danger. So I was able to continue
working merrily along while everyone else was futzing about the danger
to their PCs.

Steve

≪< Peter Evans  5/ 5 12:57a ≫>
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