Now i want > everyone's opinion (well... maybe not EVERYONE's) can they use outlook, > or something similar, to pop messages from yahoo? (If so then i totally > understand how this got sent.) Or is yahoo a strickly web-based email > system in which case either someone else hijacked their email and > manually sends out these emails, or this person is experimenting with > trojans and such and figured unleashing them on a GE class would be a > good start.
it is possible to get yahoo working with things like outlook or evolution, but it involves quite a bit of technical expertise in my experience (ie, i couldn't get it working to download my mail to a local dir)... you have to install some software called yahoopops... i'm guessing that the person just decided to download the attachment, not realizing that it's a virus, and it did what any good virus would do, and sent itself to everyone it could find... :) bah! people like that drive me up the wall!!!!!!!!! ~Erin ===== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.userfriendly.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
