Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 06:26:56 -0700
Alma J Wetzker wrote:If you open the message while in windoze, then you are infected. The virus NEEDS the OS to respond before it can do it's thing. If the OS doesn't respond, and linux will not respond to a windoze targetted attack unles wine responds, the virus never starts.
-- Alma
Are these sobig virii Outlook (express) specific, or are other mail clients, say Netscape (on windows) or eudora, vulnerable?
In general, any client can be vulnerable. You need to execute the attachment in order to be infected. (Outlook can be configured to execute attachments for you, it was the default last time I used it.)
I am not sure, but I think sobig is the same way.
The advantage to linux is, even under wine there is a permissions issue to the infection. To be fair, a NT kernel version of windoze could be made secure the same way, I am not sure how usable it would be afterwards....
-- Alma
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