Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have also read the articles, but this is not a virus in the form of an attachment. The attack exploits some features MS InternetExplorer, which can be hidden in the body of the message itself when the body of the mail message is written in HTML format. This causes the danger, because it exploits some hidden an unexpected behavior of MS InternetExplorer. Eudora uses InternetExplorer for parsing Mail messages in HTML format and is therefore fulnerable for this attack. Meino de Graaf Dan Cardish wrote: > > How can it attack Eudora? As far as I can tell, the virus comes in the > form of a Visual Basic Script, and Eudora (at least, on my machine) doesn't > know what to do with a .vbs file. It just shoves it (as a file) into my > attachments folder. > > Dan C. > > At 09:33 PM 19-07-00 -0600, you wrote: > >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? > >> > > > > > >