On Saturday 23 August 2003 9:26 am, someone claiming to be Ken Moffat wrote: > Alma J Wetzker wrote: > > If you open the message while in windoze, then you are infected. The > > virus NEEDS the OS to respond before it can do it's thing. If the OS > > doesn't respond, and linux will not respond to a windoze targetted > > attack unles wine responds, the virus never starts. > > > > -- Alma > > Are these sobig virii Outlook (express) specific, or are other mail > clients, say Netscape (on windows) or eudora, vulnerable?
If the user clicks on the executable file attachment, regardless of mail client, they can get infected. Although, I think it'll only mail itself out if the user has an Outlook, or Outlook Express address book.; or possibly a text file containing addresses. Check http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/pf/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- RedHat 8.0 Kernel 2.4.20-19.8, KDE 3.1.CVS, Xfree86 4.2.1 9:35am up 15:33, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.06 It's what you learn after you know it all that counts _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
