virus alert!!! Re: Important Message From Fred McLain

[Stephen D. Williams]

I would outlaw the sending and receipt of all MS document formats if a company really wanted
security.

Even a .txt file, if it contains "rich text" and you use Word as your default viewer, can
contain a windows binary that can be executed.

I've received zillions of these in the last several years and many other trojan horses.  I
don't even look at Word/Excel, etc. documents from people I don't know.

It really is unbelievable how little security MS designed software has.

Viva XML....  And Java.

sdw

Richard Tobin wrote:

> > Yeesh.  The *worm* sent the message, just like with happy99.  All
> > poor Fred did was open it, which in some mailers is automatic...
> > That is the nature of a worm; it sends itself on.  Get used to it.
>
> Fortunately I don't have to, I don't use MS Windows :-)
>
> I hadn't realised that there was a way for Windows viruses to find
> what mailing lists you used.
>
> -- Richard
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