Re: [cobalt-users] New email worm / virus.

[Dom Latter <d.latter@xxxxxxx>]

Mike Vanecek wrote:
> 
> If I read the notice on it correctly, it is not a MS issue, it is executing
> an attachment issue. All mail readers are at risk if attachments are

There's a *lot* of MS specific issues here:
- It runs on MS OSes.  Okay, other platforms have viruses, too...
- It uses Outlook's address book to propagate itself
- Outlook *I believe* will automatically run a vbscript when you view it 
  in a preview window, and certainly doesn't give you the "Yo Bozo, do you 
  really want to run random code somebody has sent you?" dialog it should
- Microsoft's brilliant idea of hiding file extensions meant that to the 
  naive user it looked like a .TXT file attached, not a script.

I'm happy to stand corrected on the above.