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Re: Hebrew



Tomorrow, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo blurbed:


> IASS>> a buggy mail reader whose security hole allowed the "melissa" virus
> 
> That's not Outlook hole. That's brain hole of users that opened this
> document. Well, if they use Word and allow VB to execute, they deserve it
> anyway. :)

well, last time I sat at a woodnose machine was 4-5 weeks ago, last time
I fired up outlook was 2 years ago. on TV they didn't say what the virus
does, just said it works through outlook. I later looked into some other
articles, it looks like any mail reader opening an attached Word file in
a viewer that runs VBscript will be hurt, but the damage is that the
virus mails out 50 copies to people on outlook's addressbook, so in a
way is IS outlook specific, although not because of a hole in outlook
itself.