Keith,
Outlook 2000 does have a feature that will prompt you for a confirmation
when opening attachments and you can configure what extensions that Outlook
will warn you on, but in this case this virus would of got through anyway
since it was so new and the virus software wouldn't of detected it anyway.
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Angel Castillo, MCSE, MCP+I Jobs.com
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Keith Pillow
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 12:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] LOVEYOU Virus, only MS Outlook?
>>Is MS Outlook the only client that automagically runs this thing when a
>>user views the message? What other clients run this attachment without
>>prompting?
>
>It's VBscript, so the mail client has to be capable of VBScript execution,
>and usually that mean .vbs extension associated with IE.
>
>Can outlook (all versions) execute .vbs w/o IE installed?
>
>Can Eudora configured to used IE as its HTML viewer and/or with .vbs
>associatet with IE also launch .vbs?
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.
If a user doesn't have the opportunity to stop the attachment from
executing, then that mail client has severe security problems.
If they are prompted before execution, well, then the user has had their
fair shot at avoiding a virus that slipped through their anti-virus
software.
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Keith Pillow, CTO
Sylvan Information Services, Inc.
www.sylvaninfo.net
84 Main Street Warsaw, Virginia 22572
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