Re: Melissa Virus

["Willem-Jan Markerink" <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

On 29 Mar 99 at 16:50, George L Smyth wrote:

> Willem-Jan Markerink wrote:
> > 
> > Hope this helps someone:
> > (and yes, it's real, I received an infected message this morning)
>  
> I hope that we ALL know not to execute programs sent via email.

It was not a program, but a Word file (.doc), even though I couldn't 
open it in Word (it asked for file type, and opening it as text-only 
showed the URL-list and a lot of binary garbage).

Outlook is the bad Omen here, in combination with Word, not an 
executable.... 

As always, it pays to use as little as M$ products as 
possible....especially net-software....;-)) 


--                 
Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


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