Re: Melissa Virus

[Alan Wheeler <prism@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:52 AM 3/30/99 +0000, you wrote:
>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

Don't you think that the person who wrote this Word macro understood this?
Since it was written specifically for Outlook Express I thought it obvious
that it was designed to bring out this type of thing. Not that M$ is not
beyond pounding their competition, but does it make them <the programmer
who wrote the virus> any better than M$ by doing some under handed trickery
that destroys alot of other's work?

         Alan Wheeler
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