oh, btw... Melissa et al are not actual virii... but worms...

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:  -----Original Message-----
:  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
:  Sent: 09 May 2000 11:54
:  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:  Subject: Re: [off-topic] Re: Virus alert... (or ILOVEYOU) :)
:
:
:
:  People are too curious nowadays, as this virus prooved.
:
:
:  GreeTz, BiFi
:
:  Laurens Holst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in nieuwsbericht
:  <00f901bfb804$796c8bc0$73d379c3@ron>:ðÐÁ^ÀÐÁ^?ÐÁ^pÐÁ^`ÐÁ^0ÐÁ^...
:  > The ILOVEYOU virus is simply an attachment to your email. It
:  won't start
:  > automatically when you just look at the text in the mail (like Melissa
:  did,
:  > afaik).
:  >
:  > The only thing related to it is that it spreads itself based on the
:  Outlook
:  > Express address book. But that could as well have been the
:  Eudora address
:  > book, except for that Outlook Express is used by a lot more people.
:  >
:  > The damage if you open the attachment is the same whichever
:  mail program
:  you
:  > use. However it will only spread when you've got Outlook Express.
:  >
:  > It is really not a very 'nifty' virus, like Melissa was (which
:  I, by the
:  > way, never got either).
:  >
:  >
:  > ~Grauw
:  >
:  >
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