Peter Thanks for your reply. re. branding emails - this is a 3rd party add on to the internet mail connector that converts the email into html and adds your logo to the top of it and also adds a sidebar giving address/contact details. It ends up looking like a framed web page. It is viruses travelling in html formatting I'm particularly interested in so I'll check the kak worm out in more detail. I think it's only a matter of time before a major virus outbreak occurs caused by mass mailing of an html newsletter fetching something from the web when it's viewed. It's everyone's worst fear having a virus where the user only has to open a message to activate it rather than having to open an attachment. Let me know what you think.
Thanks Andy > There have been several viruses that have tried to update themselves from internet >addresses, both websites and newsgroups. There have also been a few that have >travelled in the HTML formatting of e-mails, notably the kak worm. I don't think >there have been any that did both, however. > > What do you mean by branding emails with html conversions? > > -Peter > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Russell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 13:32 > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: partially off-topic - virus' travelling via html e-mails > > > Hi all > > I am trying to find if there is any evidence of virus' travelling via html > format emails between systems - ie. the sort of virus that goes and > fetches something off of the internet when you view the html email. There > is movement in my company to start branding emails with html conversions > but I think that with the increasing quantity of virus' around html email > will be unpopular within a year or so and everyone will go back to rich > text or plain text. Of course I could be wrong.... anyone seen any > articles about this type of risk? I'm not talking about the direct > replication of the virus in this format - more the initial infection > coming in this way rather than as an attachment which is getting rather > predictable now... > > Many thanks > > Andy Russell > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ______________________________________________ > This message is private or privileged. If you are not the > person for whom this message is intended, please delete it > and notify me immediately, and please do not copy or send > this message to anyone else. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
