>From About.com's Virus pages at http://antivirus.miningco.com/compute/antivirus/library/blemail.htm
What is an email virus? Unlike an attached file that the user must execute, email viruses are actually embedded within the email itself. Thus, users can become infected simply by reading the email. In fact, in certain cases simply previewing the email can cause infection. Email viruses to date affect only Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express users, though a person using a different email client can spread the infection to other users. Additionally, Eudora users who receive a Kak infected email and choose the delete option in their antivirus software risk the loss of their entire inbox. This is not a fault of the antivirus software, but rather the way Eudora handles individual emails as an addition to one large file. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralph D.Gerhardt" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 9:09 AM Subject: CS>Virus > Chuck, > > I agree. I don't use Outlook. I use eudora so I don't have to use > Outlook. A very strange thing happened with this virus. Norton did not > indicate a virus when it came in but "caught" it when I transferred the > infected file to a Colloidal Silver mailbox in Eudora. Apparently the > virus was able to do its damage even though Norton indicated that it had > isolated it in quarantine. I agree that Mike does a great job so then why > do I think it came in the Silver List? (1) The name of the virus is > "Colloidal silver.mbx" and (2) it only infected my CS files. It destroyed > the Eudora mailbox containing all of my Silver List archives (since the > last virus-this has happened twice). Nothing else was bothered. Those two > reasons are why I think it came in one of the Silver Lists. It bothers me > that no one else seems to have been infected with the virus. I wonder if > this virus is Eudora specific. I certainly hope not but there are some > crazies out there that might want to hurt eudora users like they have hurt > Outlook users. > > Also, thanks to Judith for the tips on protecting myself. > > Ralph > > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: > [email protected] -or- [email protected] > with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> >
