Aley Keprt wrote: > Pretty unusable for people who use scripts daily for common tasks > (as is usual on Linux).
Well it's MS Windows only, so no problem there - in fact I think it's Outlook-only in terms of being able to mail itself on to the top X people in your address book. > btw. How can be ILOVEYOU activated? > You must run (click) it manually, or not? Yes - it's a VB script file that usually arrives as a file attachment, so people have to open the attachment for it to be triggered (barring security holes in e-mail readers!). The default association for .vbs files will run the script, which is when it does the damage. Simon Cooke's fix will change the default association so it opens in Notepad instead - so it's more difficult to run it by accident. > I'm really sorry, but I think people who are so stupid to run > unknown files they get by e-mail, should lose all data on all drives. It > is the only real chance to let them know what people should avoid. Whoa!!! Nobody _deserves_ it, especially when most people affected will just not understand the risks - not everyone is as knowledgeable as _you_! Window makes things worse too - it defaults to hiding the file extensions for know file types, so the .vbs part may not be visible. Taking advantage of that they often change the filename to something like blah.txt.vbs, leaving only blah.txt when the extension is hidden. Also, since the virus spreads by sending e-mails to people from your address book, the recipients will see the e-mail as being from you and may consider it safer... > It is like when a little child put fingers on a hot cooker. > I hope all childs on internet won't do this again. It's not just children that open them... Si
