Hi, Barry -- look at the source -- Washington Post -- the news media need "scary bad news" to sell papers <shrug> RE Macs -- one of the PC analysts said there are so few viruses for Macs cause there isn't enough interest -- that the platform isn't "popular" enough <!> .. what a backhanded compliment. Perhaps Macs are not affected because the attachment must be an "executable" <.exe> file? Kathy E. Gill Business Process Information Visibility, http://process.ca.boeing.com/ BCAG Process Management, http://bpm.ca.boeing.com/ -- 425.234.2004 Empty pockets never held a man back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. - Norman Vincent Peale Microsoft Exchange: the perfect name for its users' greatest desire! > ---------- > From: Barry Lee Brisco[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, August 07, 1998 7:05 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: WC:>: "Flaw" Found in Eudora > > At > http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19980807/V000902-080798-i > dx.html > > U > ndoubtedly there are more technically detailed stories about this > "flaw" in > Eudora. However, I'm wondering just how serious this issue is. It says > that > if someone receives an attached file with an email and they run it, > the > file could do damage. Well, of course it could. This isn't news. There > must > be more to this. > > Note that the Mac version of Eudora is not affected by this "flaw". > > b2 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Flaw Found in E-mail Program > > By Michelle Koidin Associated Press Writer Friday, August 7, 1998; > 6:22 > a.m. EDT > > SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Eudora, the most widely used program for sending and > receiving e-mail over the Internet, has a security flaw that could > enable a > hacker to ruin data or plant a virus on computers that run the > software. > > The security breach came to light Thursday, a little more than a week > after > flaws were revealed in two other popular e-mail programs, Microsoft's > Outlook and Netscape's e-mail client that comes with its Communicator > suite. > > A Eudora user reported the bug earlier this week, according to San > Diego-based Qualcomm Inc., which produces the software. > > Someone could send Eudora users e-mail with attachments that could > erase > files on the recipient's hard disk or plant a virus, said Matthew > Parks, > manager of Qualcomm's Eudora product line. > > The flaw would be triggered when the user clicked on a hostile > hyperlink in > the e-mail. Instead of linking to a Web page, the action would execute > the > attached file, which could then do the damage. > > ``There's been no report of instances of anybody losing data from this > problem,'' Parks said Thursday. ``Within two days of hearing about it, > we > actually will have the problem solved.'' > > Qualcomm planned to release a ``patch'' on its Web site today that > users > may download to fix their software. > > The flaw affects Eudora 4.0 and 4.0.1, as well as 4.1, which is being > circulated in test form, operating on the Windows platform. Earlier > versions of Eudora are not affected, nor are Macintosh versions. > Market > researchers estimate that there are 18 million copies of Eudora in > use. > Barry <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Web Design & Development - Online Marketing <http://www.ToTheWeb.com> > > In a world without walls or fences, what use do we have for windows or > gates? > > ____________________________________________________________________ > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Join The Web Consultants Association : Register on our web site Now > Web Consultants Web Site : http://just4u.com/webconsultants > If you lose the instructions All subscription/unsubscribing can be > done > directly from our website for all our lists. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > ____________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Join The Web Consultants Association : Register on our web site Now Web Consultants Web Site : http://just4u.com/webconsultants If you lose the instructions All subscription/unsubscribing can be done directly from our website for all our lists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
