"Hi" - Nasty Outlook virus going around. I'm getting hammered with this thing. Here's what to do if you are infected. Well, that plus stop using Outlook Express unless you really know that program well (I mean unless you know how to change all the massively insecure defaults - not showing file extensions of downloaded files!!! Automatically executing them!!! - that Microsoft ships this thing with.)
yah baby!!
Can this worm attack Macs? I only saw removal instructions for systems running Windows.
No, like every other virus in the world this only infects Windows (any variety) systems and only spreads through Microsoft Outlook Express. If nobody used Outlook Express there would be none of these problems. If I were conspiracy minded....
It also spreads through the chat program ICQ which I use from time to time.
It'll use your ICQ connection to launch denial of service attacks. I don't know if it actually spreads that way too. In any case, the program is a Win32 executable, so there is no possible way it can run on anything other than a windows machine. (Well, maybe if you were running Virtual PC on the Mac, but I think that qualifies as a windows machine.) You might be annoyed by it - like if your mailbox fills up with a million copies of gone.scr - but you can't catch anything.
I don't know why this one spread so fast (or even if it did really.) I saw it way more than any of the other big ones, but maybe that was just coincidence.
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- jim 12-04-2001 10:41 pm
yah baby!!
- Skinny 12-05-2001 5:09 am
Can this worm attack Macs? I only saw removal instructions for systems running Windows.
- steve 12-05-2001 12:33 pm
No, like every other virus in the world this only infects Windows (any variety) systems and only spreads through Microsoft Outlook Express. If nobody used Outlook Express there would be none of these problems. If I were conspiracy minded....
- jim 12-05-2001 5:24 pm
It also spreads through the chat program ICQ which I use from time to time.
- steve 12-05-2001 6:10 pm
It'll use your ICQ connection to launch denial of service attacks. I don't know if it actually spreads that way too. In any case, the program is a Win32 executable, so there is no possible way it can run on anything other than a windows machine. (Well, maybe if you were running Virtual PC on the Mac, but I think that qualifies as a windows machine.) You might be annoyed by it - like if your mailbox fills up with a million copies of gone.scr - but you can't catch anything.
I don't know why this one spread so fast (or even if it did really.) I saw it way more than any of the other big ones, but maybe that was just coincidence.
- jim 12-05-2001 6:48 pm