Re: [WinMac] Breaking the Friday monotony, virus-style
John C. Welch(jwelch[at]aer.com)
Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:55:05 -0500
Another reason why Macs don't suck! (that VBA garbage tends to explode
if you try to use it for inter-application communication on a mac.)
silly windows users, now even your email is not safe
:)
john
Jason Sellers wrote:
>
> A company I'm working with just got hit with a massive virus. It comes to
> your machine in the form of a Word file attachment. The message itself
> says "An important message from..." in the subject. When you open the
> attachment, it automatically puts your name in the subject line (i.e. "An
> important message from Jason Sellers") and sends the email, attachment
> included, to HUNDREDS of people.
>
> Needless to say this spreads like WILDFIRE, as it only takes a couple
> curious people to replicate it hundred-fold. This is a HUGE company
> (50,000 worldwide) standardized on Exchange and Outlook, so as you can
> imagine it's creating quite a headache for mail support personel around the
> globe. No details yet, all I know is that Scanmail on the Exchange servers
> is not catching it.
>
> WOW! What a way to break the Friday afternoon monotony!! ;-)
>
> Jason
>
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