---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Martin Brys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 14:50:47 -0400 >All subscribers might be infected! Email has a Wscript.KakWorm virus !!! >Check your systems !!! > >Check http://sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/wscript.kakworm.html Hah. This is what you MS-lovers get when using non-standard piece of shit browsers/e-mail clients. I use Netscape witch has no support for Active-X and JScript. I'm safe. (Those who wanna flame me, please do so, I don't care what you think about my opinion about Microsoft. Before replying this message, you should read my signature) I think, that this will NOT be the last time, when people get Java/JScript/active-x viruses throught their e-mail. Any MS-software contains huge amount of security holes. (quote from sarc.com) The worm utilizes a known Microsoft Outlook Express security hole so that a viral file is created on the system without having to run any attachment. Simply reading the received email message will cause the virus to be placed on the system. (end quote) Hopefully You Outlook Express users learn about this incident. Update your outlooks. Don't blame that "innocent" guy who accidently posted that virus in this discussion group. Blame M$ and their crappy e-mail client. Not everyone has newest virus-protection software at hand, new viruses are found daily, variants come out daily. I found on the net recently one Java-applet witch does the "same" like this KAK.worm, it wont spread in e-mail. It puts .HTA file in startup folder without user ever noticed it and when users starts his/her machine it will shutdown the machine without any message from the virus author. When I looked at the source code for that function, it is easily converted something like this: echo y|format c: and buff ... there goes harddisk. Be VERY afraid. I rest my case. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- - Walter Saarimaa - PC-Support Engineer - Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute -[Begin Signature]------------------------------------------- .......... Never Underestimate the Power of ................. ........... Stupid People in Large Groups! .................. -[End Signature]---------------------------------------------- -- Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list.
