Re: Don't get the virus...

[Daniel Say say@xxxxxxxx]

Andrew J. Glass wrote:
" 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 
"
"
"
	But did Andrew J. Glass point to his newsbuddies
	the Microsoft specificity of the bug and its variants
	over the next couple of weeks.

	Yes, non-windows, non-Outlook/Exchange software may
	not invoke the bug, but it still lies there.

	DiStefano should post his recent note on Hacksaw as
	a command line mailer for XY that he posted on
	NotaBene side of the mountain.

				Daniel Say
				No, I didn't get the bug, but
				see the headers and what mailer
				I'm using, (minor barrier (weir?)
				and I hate attachments, exp. of
				ordinary text that could be sent
				as part of the message, even
				uuencoded.
	
"
" 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!
" :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
" Peter Evans 
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