ES - Virus Alert! This is serious!

[Adam Harrison]

Great info, there's just one catch...

I only preview messages.  The kak virus can infect some versions of outlook
if you just preview the message, which is what happened to me.

Still, if you have the patch you will be alright.


-Bjorn




----- Original Message -----
From: Daungerous (Donna R. Thompson) <daungerous at ev1.net>
To: <elfsea at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: ES - Virus Alert! This is serious!


> Thanks guys for all the info you put out.  I am a super-emailer, belong to
> several lists and get about 60-70 messages a day.  I also use Outlook 5,
so
> I was SURE that I would have this virus.  Doing the checks, it showed that
I
> did not.  But, I am so paranoid about losing stuff (I have a web business,
> so it would be REALLY bad) that I brought in the big guns, my super-geek
> husband.  I wanted to know how is it possible that I don't have this virus
> and he explained it to me this way:  "Previewing" a message is different
> than "opening" a message.  In Outlook, the message is displayed if you
> highlight it, then you read it in the "preview" mode, but if you double
> click on the message and it opens a separate window, you have "opened" it
> and will launch your hard-drive.  He told me to listen to my hard drive
when
> I did this and you can hear it start up.  I only relay this info because I
> was concerned I would have the virus and not know it (even with the links
> provided, I didn't trust myself to do it right) because I am only a
> "geek-in-training".  He also said that this only a possible explanation,
> some viruses load from "preview" mode and others load from "open" mode and
> some do both.  I just needed a reasonable explanation of why I wasn't
> infected and thought others might also.  Needless to say, I got the patch
> downloaded.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Daungerous
> Pretty is as pretty does.
> http://www.desertdancer.com
>
>
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