Re: Entourage X sending unintentional messages

[Dennis T Cheung]

Title: Re: Entourage X sending unintentional messages

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I'm usually not negative, but your theory is completely wrong and baseless.

1. Your theory is based on the report of 1 report on this list. If this were indeed a worm, there’d be at least a 50% reporting rate. Clearly this is not the case.

2. Klez and friends did not attach random files. Klez and friends trolled your files for email addresses, and sent itself as an attachment to those email addresses. This report has nothing to do with self-replication or any sort of spread.

3. Finally, and I really really hate to say this, but Klez and friends were mostly the result of user error/social hacking/general ignorance resulting in the violation of Rule #1: DO NOT OPEN ATTACHMENTS WITHOUT VERIFICATION.

To me, common sense would indicate that you shouldn’t open an attachment called “Usefultool.exe” included in an email with the subject “A useful tool   for you. enjoy” without first asking the sender “WTF is this??”. But I guess common sense is a bit uncommon.

Entourage will actually warn you if another application or applescript tries to send mail through it. It’s like I say at my lectures at MacWorld: Read the warnings. Period.

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On 1/15/03 2:53 PM, "Paul van den Hooven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Well, I'm not sure about this, but the E'rage behavior Cas describes to me
> looks pretty much like what a couple of email viruses and worms did. Klez
> and it's successors -as I remember coorectly- showed such behavior. I hope
> not the Apple-community is going to be an victim now.
>
> -- Paul van den Hooven.
>

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