Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Attacks Eudora too. > >> From: Harrison McClary <harrison@mcclary.net> >> >> With all of these viruses that attack Microsoft Outlook why does >> ANYONE still use that program when there are alternatives that are >> free and work just as well? > > I may be misunderstanding what I read in the advisory but if I am not using IE as an HTML reader than I would not have a problem using Eudora, right? Following is what I am talking about: >Users running systems with Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, or any >mail reader >that uses Internet Explorer to render HTML documents are also >vulnerable to this exploit through E-mail. Not that I am worried, I use Macintosh computers, Netscape and just have MS word cause I occasionally get word files from clients...few viruses for our machines...guess all those virus writers are disgruntled Microsoft employees,not Apple employees. :) - -- Harrison McClary http://www.mcclary.net