On Monday 01 October 2001 21:45, Benjamin Scott wrote: > On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Tom Rauschenbach wrote: > > Has anybody seen an Outlook virus... > > Outlook *is* a virus. Yeah, yeah.
> > The Symantec Anti-Virus Research Center (SARC, http://www.sarc.com) > doesn't have anything on it. But I have heard of worms which pick subject > lines from existing messages, so that is inconclusive. What other symptoms > does this virus have? Do you have an attachment name? How about running > "strings" on a sample? I'm trying to get a sample, unfortunatley th damn thing is 73K and my wifes ISP won't let her forward it. OK, the symptom is that all desktop icons run away from the mouse pointer. Really annoying, and it makes the GUI even less usefull than usual. So far, there are no signs of data corruption/deletion. > > > Unforunately, this one can infect through non Outlook clients. It seems > > to hit Eudora. > > Many of the so-called "Outlook" viruses are really targeting MSIE or > Windows in general. They merely make use of some of the "features" in > Outlook to do their job better. Since Microsoft has succeeded in > convincing the entire Western world that MSIE is the only web browser known > to man, most any Windows email program capable of rendering HTML (e.g., > Eudora) will be susceptible as well, as they will simply pass it off to > MSIE. ********************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **********************************************************
