Thanks for the information Garth. I use both products and was not aware of
this virus's capability. Ron
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From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Garth Wood
Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 6:32 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: possible virus heads up in msg Re: [OM] XA and flash-Reply
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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than a good day doing just about
anything else."
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