At 11:37 PM 6/10/02, Michael Harney wrote: >From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Klez is a mass-mailing worm which searches the Windows address book for > > email addresses and sends messages to all recipients that it finds. The > > worm uses its own SMTP engine to send the messages. ____It can also spoof > > the 'From' in messages, a factor which has resulted in widespread > > confusion about the bug____. > > > > The subject and attachment name of incoming emails is randomly chosen, > > making it harder for users to spot. The attachment will have one of the > > following extensions: .bat, .exe, .pif or .scr. Klez is capable of > > infecting files. > > > > The worm exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook and Outlook > > Express in an attempt to execute itself when you open or even preview the > > message. > > > >My question is simple, weren't these exploits in Lookout Express and Lookout >(of course I mean Outlook, but Lookout is what I call it)
As in "LOOK OUT!!"? > patched last year? >Anyone can go online, download the latest critical updates, and be done with >it. Who in their right mind relies on a Mircosoft product and doesn't >install the critical updates as they are made available? Makes no matter >anyhow, because with all the past, present, and future exploits, only an >idiot would run Outlook with the security settings on anything other than >restricted sites zone, which in itself should prevent most of the exploits >(unless the user does something stupid and choses to open the >attatchments)... unfortunately the default settings are very relaxed in >security, and not a lot of people know how to change those settings (and >apparantly not a lot of people patch their software either). Possibly because after spending hundreds of dollars for the whole package (Windows, Office, etc.), they expect anything that costs as much as a new washing machine to work at least as well as they would expect a new washing machine to, not require repairs (even free ones) every couple of weeks? -- Ronn! :) God bless America, Land that I love! Stand beside her, and guide her Thru the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam� God bless America! My home, sweet home. -- Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
