At 12:38 PM +1000 6/6/98, franko wrote:
>At 16:33 4/06/98 -0700, John Stewart wrote:
>> Realistically, as long as you are dealing with the M$ Office product
>>line and the ActiveX controls, macro viruses are a fact of life.
>>"Flexibility and inter-operability" have been incorporated into the
>>product line. With that comes the reality that you can e-mail a
>>document with an Active-X control that will format the addressee's hard
>>drive.
>
>Hmmm. Glad I've moved away from using MS Office then.
YES! don't know if this falls in the same category ... but
> There are at least 2 e-mail bombs being distributed in Boeing. One
> known e-mail message has Subject "Update your anti-virus protection".
> The other e-mail bomb message has Subject containing the words "Reduce
> Manpower".
>
> Both contain no text message, only an attached file showing a .shs
> extension. If either of the attached files are executed on a Window
> '95 or NT computer, it will delete your system files. If you have
> executed such a file and are having a computer problem, contact the
> CSRC or your local helpline.
>
> Delete these messages if they appear in your Inbox. Then delete them
> from your deleted file.
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