>My sister has no idea how to change.
So she continues to use M$OE for mail.
Last month, she was infected with and sent out to about 50 others....
happy99.exe
(yes, M$OE opened the attachment automatically when she moved to that message)
>
I once received a message with containing happy99.exe in uuencode, not a MIME
attachment, downloaded by the OS/2 port of popclient, which just downloads the
mail and nothing more. That was shortly after Happy99 first came out.
>I think it is a good idea to point these things out to the media every
time you can get their attention. Almost all PC users think Windows and
the other crap installed on their system is PART of the PC and without
it the PC would not be a computer. :(
>
More proof of the point that Windows is for somebody who doesn't know how to use
a computer. So many Windows users have only a vague idea of what a computer
really is!?
>> The virus it self is written very weak, obviously written by a
> student. Anyone which can write a little visual basic could have build
> this virus..
>
Yes, this is the point. I can't understand, that governments, big
companies, radio and tv stations..., with lots of sensible data still trust
in a system which is supplied with it's own "virus construction kit".
This morning there was told in the radio news they arrested a 23 year old man
who is suspected to start this virus. It's sure to me that someone will
follow the example of this guy soon.
But it's also not to understand, that Microsoft gave Visual Basic, which should
be a simple makro language, such enormous capabilities.
>
Now it's easy to see why there will be copycats of the ILoveYou virus. In the
"good old days" when DOS was prevalent, a virus writer had to have a good
knowledge of assembler language. It seems the virus writer deserves no more
than a small portion of the blame. But Visual Basic was intended to be a
full-fledged programming language and development system, like Visual C++ or
IBM's Visual Age family that includes C++, Java, COBOL, Smalltalk and formerly
also Basic. MS subsequently adapted Visual Basic as a macro language for use
with Excel, Word, IE and some other applications.
