> >Sorry, I just felt the urge to say this. There is nothing particualarily
> >bad about Outlook Express, these various viruses require you to excute
> >attachments, and you can do that in any mail client..
>
> Not true! With Outlook Express all you have to do is read the message.
> The virus can be embedded in the message with Outlook Express. The
> "Wscript.KakWorm" virus is a particularly bad example of this.
> For details see:
>
> http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/wscript.kakworm.html
Well, that's true if you haven't upgraded your IE with the latest security
patches, and especially true if you're security zones are left at the
default which allow all sorts of nonsense to go on.
Call me paranoid ("Hey, paranoid!"), but setting your security zones in IE
to be more restrictive is absolutely vital. I'm puzzled as to why older
versions of IE were so lax. I haven't tried it, but my co-workers who are
more daring have said that the IE6 beta actually does a better job of
restricting your sites more, so the Internet site allows less
monkey-business.
The Kakworm, fortunately, never made it "big time", but you're right, that
was a fine example of an HTML email actually being able to cause some
damage. One can only ponder what would have happened had it spread better.
Aaron
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