Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 08:48:56 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [LIB] Klez/etc
At 05:45 PM 30/07/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 08:41:12 +0800 >From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: [LIB] Klez/etc > >At 10:15 AM 30/07/2002 -0700, you wrote: >>Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:08:28 -0700 (PDT) >>From: Charles Hawtrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: RE: [LIB] Klez/etc >> >> >> > From: "Lines, Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > >> > The point has been made many, many times, but the way viri like these >> > sods >> > now work is to not only send mail TO everyone in a contact list in >> > Outlook, >> > but also set the FROM address to be someone in the outlook address book. >> >>Unless I'm missing something, isn't the obvious solution "don't use >>Outlook"? Regardless of Outlook's intrinsic merits or demerits, it's by >>far the most popular target for viruses of any email program. So why not >>use something else? > >The problem isn't that WE are using Outlook. In fact, it just occurs to me, this virus isn't Outlook specific anyway. It has it's own email sending code so once it infects a computer, it looks for ALL address books regardless of if you use Outlook, Eudora, Netscape or any webmail service (assuming you've got a cached local copy of your address book) and spoofs one to send to the rest. Of course, if you only telnetted into the mailserver and kept your address book on a remote computer (preferrably Linux/Unix/something not vulnerable to Klez) then you couldn't be the source of the infection but that STILL doesn't stop someone else's infected computer from sending emails in your name ... *sigh* - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | | ICQ: 31756092 | Libretto IRC channel #Libretto on DALNet! | \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
