Opening Email
Incidentally, the BadTrans worm doesnt even require you to open the mail, it exploits a known security hole in Outlook Express to execute the attachment without you actually opening it.
Nice one Microsoft. Another one no doubt you’ll blame lax sys-admins for?
Anyway, anyone using Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express needs to go here and read up.
Steve.
It would appear that UNIX has it’s uses. Thanks for the update.
I use Eudora and every attachment I get, whether I open it or not, saves itself to Qualcom/Eudora/Attach =/. What a pain in the rear. The two times I have been sent viruses, I have just ran quickly to that file and remove the attachment, then prayed it didn’t manage to send itself onwards before I destroyed it.
Oh I in no way meant DD was the cause of what happen to me!! I know you werent and I never thought you were. It happen as any virus can I guess, but DD in NO WAY was at all responsible.I hope you didnt think I implied it was.Im so sorry if I did, I never even thought that.
You were all a great help!!
Rosie
Vegeta
The virus you’re speaking of doesn’t effect IE 6, there’s is a patch available for those using IE 5 on on the MSN site.
Just a quick question, I don’t think it warrants a "help" request.
Sometimes my diary headings seem to move back a day, and they don’t make much sense 🙂 Any ideas? They always right themselves eventually, but I wonder if it happens with other diaries too..
Thanks
~LIFE~
Thanks for the heads up! I had imagined that because I automatically delete attachments, I would be safe. More fool me. :/