At 11:27 AM 12/6/99 -0500, Scott Nelson wrote:
[snip]
>BTW,
>the assumption that you must execute a program to become infected is no longer
>true. Bubbleboy will infect merely by highlighting the infected email's subject
>in your in your in box.
True, but you have to be running both Internet Explorer 5 and either of Outlook
or Outlook Express in order for Bubbleboy to do its bit. Microsoft's also
issued a patch for IE5 which will prevent the worm from executing if you use
IE5's default security settings. Also, Bubbleboy's not yet been seen "in the
wild."
If you're using some other e-mail program (Eudora, Pegasus, a Mac- or
Unix-based reader), there's no issue.
Garth
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