> I would suggest switching to an email program that
> can't be affected by a
> virus, for example, Eudora 1.5.2. It lacks a number
> of the desirable
> features of Outlook, etc., such as autoexecution,
> click to execute, and so
> on; but, it simply can't be attacked by a virus.
First of all, I did not recieve the virus through
email, I got it from another machine on a local
network (I had attached to the network and opened a
share on my C: drive without password, so my machine
was wide open).
Secondly, when this virus (Sircam) spreads by email it
does not rely on any autorun features of Outlook to
infect the target. Instead, it relies on the
recepient running at attachment -- which it has built
by taking a real document from the sender's machine
and wrapping it in the virus. The network from which
I got the virus is pure Eudora -- it wasn't Outlook
that infected the original machine.
This virus does have one dependency on Microsoft
products -- it uses your Outlook or Windows address
book files to email itself (it contains its own SMTP
client, so your email program is never used). This
dependency is not due to any impossibility of using,
for instance, Eudora address books but rather to the
fact that the author(s) decided to use the windows
address books only.
--
Larry
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