As Scott said, it sounds plausible. If the virus writer set it up to 
send to the entire address book at once, it would work. Both OE 
and OL croak on the first bad address. Unfortunately, as Duane 
points out, they're smart enough to send one at a time.

Bob

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Duane Boudreau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date:  Tue, 26 Feb 2002 09:44:51 -0500

>This sort of works, I'm embarrassed to say I have first hand 
knowledge.
>
>The first contact in my Outlook address book is Allaire, with all my 
pwds
>and usernames for their stuff, with no email address.
>
>Opening a Trojan\worm produced an error saying contact Allaire 
was not a
>email address. Outlook continued to plow thru my address book 
until I yanked
>the network connection. (fortunately only sending 2 more emails)
>
>HTH,
>Duane
>
>


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