Webmasters And Computer Viruses

[RawAlex]

do, there are almost no mac viruses because they can't find two of them to share a virus with!

Outlook is okay, provided you do the following:

1 - don't accept any attachments.
2 - turn off the preview pane
3 - you go to microsoft site weekly and update you system (which if you are running windows, you should anyway)
4 - don't use outlook express, use outlook 2000 or outlook 2002 that comes with office.

The exploit Klez uses has been known for a year, and microsoft has had a patch for that long. The problem exists only because people don't update their systems.

Klex and many other viruses now use either the content of the address book or email addresses stored in webpages cached on the hard drive to not only select victims but also to fake the "from" part of the header. The idea is to create total chaos and get people pissed off at each other.

Apparently it works.

Alex