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-----Original Message-----
From: Walter Saarimaa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 1:57 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] ODBC Issue - VIRUS WARNING - EMAIL CONTAINS
SOME WACKY jScript modifying your registry - check it out !!!
---------- 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.
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