RE: [WinMac] Breaking the Friday monotony, virus-style
Gregory Hammond(gregh[at]trinetgroup.com)
Fri, 26 Mar 1999 15:14:58 -0800
Just happened to one of our Win users here. Everyone has gotten so
accustomed to ignoring the Word macro virus warning, that this one will
spread like mad. Worse yet, it can easily come from someone who you have
every reason to trust.
> ----------
> From: John C. Welch
> Reply To: The Windows-MacOS cooperation list
> Sent: Friday, March 26, 1999 14:55
> To: The Windows-MacOS cooperation list
> Subject: Re: [WinMac] Breaking the Friday monotony, virus-style
>
> 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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