Re: Today's reason not to run Windows

2000-05-05 Thread Bill Sconce
Tom Rauschenbach wrote: > > Did anybody actually get this thing ? I got 14 warnings about it, the NPR news > is full of it. I don't have it and I want to see it! As it happens, yes. I received three copies of it. I don't run Outlook, of course. BUT... At work (my client's site, which i

RE: Today's reason not to run Windows

2000-05-05 Thread Jerry Eckert
does explicitly mention clicking on the attachment. Jerry -Original Message- From: Marc Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 7:22 AM To: Jerry Eckert Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Today's reason not to run Windows See http://www.zdnet.com/tlkbck/

RE: Today's reason not to run Windows

2000-05-05 Thread Marc Evans
See http://www.zdnet.com/tlkbck/comment/22/0,7056,88759-421762,00.html to support my assertions. - Marc On Thu, 4 May 2000, Jerry Eckert wrote: > Marc Evans wrote: > > > >I beg to differ, but this is hadly the forum. The VB file attached is > >immediately executed upon retrieval from the POP b

Re: Today's reason not to run Windows

2000-05-04 Thread Derek Martin
Today, Thomas Charron gleaned this insight: > Here I am, looking in preview mode, without a thing.. Funny that.. :-P Are you sure? Check Kenny Lussier's message about how to detect it. See if it compromised your system or not... -- PGP/GPG Public key at http://cerberus.ne.mediaone.net

Re: Today's reason not to run Windows

2000-05-04 Thread Jeffry Smith
Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan wrote: > > >Did anybody actually get this thing ? I got 14 warnings about it, the NPR news > >is full of it. I don't have it and I want to see it! Please continue this > Yepp, we got it. It made a pretty good mess at work. It was funny. > Ferenc I feel unloved - did nob

Re: Today's reason not to run Windows

2000-05-04 Thread Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan
>Did anybody actually get this thing ? I got 14 warnings about it, the NPR news >is full of it. I don't have it and I want to see it! Please continue this Yepp, we got it. It made a pretty good mess at work. It was funny. Ferenc ** To u

Re: Today's reason not to run Windows

2000-05-04 Thread Thomas Charron
Here I am, looking in preview mode, without a thing.. Funny that.. :-P - Original Message - From: Kurth Bemis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tom Rauschenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 10:37 PM Subject: Re: Today's reason

Re: Today's reason not to run Windows

2000-05-04 Thread Kurth Bemis
At 07:17 PM 5/4/2000 -0400, Tom Rauschenbach wrote: i have a copy of the source. I am posting it to the list! :-) be very careful with it. ~kurth >Folks, > >I changed the subject line for a reason. I use (and bash whenever possible) >Outlook at work and Linux and kmail at home. Both of

RE: Today's reason not to run Windows

2000-05-04 Thread Jerry Eckert
Marc Evans wrote: > >I beg to differ, but this is hadly the forum. The VB file attached is >immediately executed upon retrieval from the POP box. The user does not >have to open the message in any fashion, if the preview feature is >enabled. Why is it that none of the information releases from th

Re: Today's reason not to run Windows

2000-05-04 Thread Tom Rauschenbach
Folks, I changed the subject line for a reason. I use (and bash whenever possible) Outlook at work and Linux and kmail at home. Both of which are not germane to this thread. Did anybody actually get this thing ? I got 14 warnings about it, the NPR news is full of it. I don't have it and I

Re: Today's reason not to run Windows

2000-05-04 Thread Marc Evans
I beg to differ, but this is hadly the forum. The VB file attached is immediately executed upon retrieval from the POP box. The user does not have to open the message in any fashion, if the preview feature is enabled. To make some reasonable use of this bandwidth at least, below you will find som

RE: Today's reason not to run Windows

2000-05-04 Thread Jerry Eckert
Marc Evans wrote: > >I wish this were true, but it sadly is not. The MS Outlook program has a >"feature" which previews messages. Anyone who has that feature turned on, >which I believe it is by default, would become infected simply by >retrieving messages from theie pop/imap/whatever box. The Ou

Re: Today's reason not to run Windows

2000-05-04 Thread Thomas Charron
> On Thu, 4 May 2000, Thomas Charron wrote: > > You know, all of this bashing on why Outlook does this and that, not one > > has mentioned that *IT'S the DUMMIES WHO RAN IT*'s fault. It didn't run > > itself. Someone had to open it.. This is a question of intelligence, which > > has *NOTHING*

Re: Today's reason not to run Windows

2000-05-04 Thread Marc Evans
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Thomas Charron wrote: > You know, all of this bashing on why Outlook does this and that, not one > has mentioned that *IT'S the DUMMIES WHO RAN IT*'s fault. It didn't run > itself. Someone had to open it.. This is a question of intelligence, which > has *NOTHING* do wit

Re: Today's reason not to run Windows

2000-05-04 Thread Thomas Charron
secured NT box.. Ok, stop laughing.. A properly secured NT box would have been just as safe as a Linux user opening a like *EXECUTABLE*. - Original Message - From: Tom Rauschenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 5:31 PM Subject

Today's reason not to run Windows

2000-05-04 Thread Tom Rauschenbach
I never got the damn virus. Could somebody send me a copy ? TIA TomR -- Standard is better than better. If your web page cares what browser I'm using it's broken. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAI