> Outlook, by default, will automatically forward messages
> so when folks did their mail thing they unknowingly sent out this virus
> to all the users in their addressbook.
Nah, that's not right. Outlook is scriptable (not sure if that can be
disabled), so when the script was run it can easily create new e-mails to
send to people (it doesn't forward the mail).
> Of course another analyst says you can't blame Microsoft or Windows.
> Whatever the dominant OS is and most people write for would have been
> the target audience.
Yes, but Windows makes it easier. DOS and MacOS would also be easy, whereas
a real system with real security behind it (Unices, and NT to some extent)
are a lot more difficult to write viruses for. In fact, with a UNIX
machine, if the virus was to modify existing programs on the system it'd
have to be a superuser...
Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)
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