Webmasters And Computer Viruses

Lisa · 02-16-2003

Steve is right, Michael. One of the 'features' of the klez virus and others like it is that they use as the 'from' address, any email address that is somehow stored in any way in your email client. In address books, in copies to self, etc

So the original sender of your email from Dravyk could be any one who has ever sent or received email from him.

If you don't use Outlook for mail, you can't be infected, and more importantly, because these viruses exploit a vulnerability in Outlook in order to self-send, even if you did inadvertantly execute the virus file, you wouldn't be sending it on.

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02-16-2003	#1
Lisa Happiness is an anagram of penis pash... Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Brisbane Posts: 879	Steve is right, Michael. One of the 'features' of the klez virus and others like it is that they use as the 'from' address, any email address that is somehow stored in any way in your email client. In address books, in copies to self, etc So the original sender of your email from Dravyk could be any one who has ever sent or received email from him. If you don't use Outlook for mail, you can't be infected, and more importantly, because these viruses exploit a vulnerability in Outlook in order to self-send, even if you did inadvertantly execute the virus file, you wouldn't be sending it on.