RE: VIRUS ALERT!!

[Brian McGarvey <brianm@zbt62.eastnet.gatech.edu>]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Daniel Snow wrote:

> You know, I got the warning about this & didn't see an attachment to the
> message, so I (stupidly) opened it. Well, I've only gotten (1) error since,
> so I'm not sure if it did anything to me or not.
That particular virus is activated by the html security holes in Outlook.
Microsoft actually has a patch for it. I suggest that you "fix" your box
now becuase it activates on the 1st of a month causing your box to
continously shut down when you try to boot it up..

Outlook whatever is a major security hole for virii you should use
something else.

>
> I want to ask a general question though, if the virus is html based, can I
> be infected just by opening the message and not the attachment? or is the
> virus based in the message code itself?
>
> We didn't cover viruses very thoroughly at all in class.....
>
>
> TIA,
> Dan
> Tampa, FL
>
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