From: David E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>The closing sentence of a San Francisco Chronicle writeup on the virus
> said that server users should contact Microsoft for patches :).
>
>It's yet another instance of the Outlook Virus Transmission software.
Not quite.
Nimda can and does propogate via Outlook attachments, and embedded HTML;
However it *also* propogates as Javascript on infected web pages, which
has no dependency on Outlook (altho does depend on MS's IIS web server
to house it's infection). Also, it can spread across MS network shares,
again with no dependence on Outlook.
Nimda is REALLY thorough in exploiting many ways to propogate.
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