Not sure if it is a virus, meaning it will probably harm (if any) only
the 'weakest' in the 'survival of the fittest' race, i.e. Outlook users.
A virus in the original medical terminology should attack the average
healthy subject, and I do not consider Outlook users as such.
I just hope that guy that was scolding programmers for reading this list
through elm/pine and the like, losing all the wonderful virtues of HTML
e-mail, got it in his Outlook :-)
Kostas
P.S. How long more will it take to have people stop writing HTML
messages? (I am writing this from my home PC, running NScape, with HTML
turned OFF!)
Ron Reynolds wrote:
>
> it is a virus. i'm no expert in script, but attached (i appologize in
> advance for posting an attachment) is the text that i found embedded in the
> "How to remove a line from a JTextArea" email. apparently it adds itself to
> the startup sequence through modifying autoexec.bat and also adding the
> proper registry entry and on a particular date prints "Kagou-Anti-Kro$oft
> says not today !" and then reboots your computer. i would definitely say
> this is ON-TOPIC for anybody on the internet and i suggest people running
> Outlook Express 5 check the attached file out. also i would say this is a
> VERY GOOD reason to add some form of filtering at the mail-server to remove
> attachments and script blocks from these damn HTML emails.
> just my humble opinion, of course...
> ............ron.
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