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FOOT-AND-MOUTH BELIEVED TO BE FIRST VIRUS UNABLE TO SPREAD THROUGH
MICROSOFT OUTLOOK
Researchers Shocked to Finally Find Virus That Email App Doesn't Like
Atlanta, Ga. (GPS) Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and
Symantec's AntiVirus Research Center today confirmed that foot-and-mouth
disease cannot be spread by Microsoft's Outlook email application,
believed to be the first time the program has ever failed to propagate
a major virus.
"Frankly, we've never heard of a virus that couldn't spread through
Microsoft Outlook, so our findings were, to say the least, unexpected,"
said Clive Sarnow, director of the CDC's infectious disease unit.
The study was immediately hailed by British officials, who said it will
save millions of pounds and thousands of man hours. "Up until now we
have, quite naturally, assumed that both foot-and-mouth and mad cow were
spread by Microsoft Outlook," said Nick Brown, Britain's Agriculture
Minister. "By eliminating it, we can focus our resources elsewhere."
However, researchers in the Netherlands, where foot-and-mouth has
recently appeared, said they are not yet prepared to disqualify Outlook,
which has been the progenitor of viruses such as "I Love You,"
"Bubbleboy," "Anna Kournikova," and "Naked Wife," to name but a few.
Said Nils Overmars, director of the Molecular Virology Lab at Leiden
University, "It's not that we don't trust the research, it's just that
as scientists, we are trained to be skeptical of any finding that flies
in the face of established truth. And this one flies in the face
like a blind drunk sparrow."
Executives at Microsoft, meanwhile, were equally skeptical, insisting
that Outlook's patented Virus Transfer Protocol (VTP) has proven
virtually pervious to any virus. The company, however, will issue a
free VTP patch if it turns out the application is not vulnerable to
foot-and-mouth.
Such an admission would be embarrassing for the software giant, but
Symantec virologist Ariel Kologne insisted that no one is more
humiliated by the study than she is. "Only last week, I had a reporter
ask if the foot-and-mouth virus spreads through Microsoft Outlook, and I
told him, 'Doesn't everything?'" she recalled. "Who would've thought?"
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