Re: [IMail Forum] LOVEYOU Virus, only MS Outlook?

[scott.perry]

> I'm really only concerned with the clients that don't prompt before 
> execution. I'm under the impression that Outlook is the only one that
> doesn't require some user action. Please correct me if I am wrong.

With this virus, Outlook will NOT run it unless [1] the user opens the attachment (IE, 
they don't know much about computers), and [2] the user clicks "OK" to run the file 
(or saves it and then runs it).

> If a user doesn't have the opportunity to stop the attachment from 
> executing, then that mail client has severe security problems.

Yes, that would be a severe security problem.  However, the only known problem there 
is with Outlook Express and HTML E-mail containing ActiveX code in it.  No known 
viruses are in the wild exploiting that serious Microsoft bug.
                              -Scott

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