ES - Virus Alert! This is serious!

[Laura Feldner]

Total ignorant non-geek here,
What are the symptoms of this virus? I have not noticed anything unusual
with my Outlook program. Do I need to do anything special?
Give it to me in non-geek speak please. Thanks!
Layla


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-elfsea at ansteorra.org [mailto:owner-elfsea at ansteorra.org]On
> Behalf Of Adam Harrison
> Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 4:24 PM
> To: elfsea at ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: ES - Virus Alert! This is serious!
>
>
> 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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