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Eudora doesn't have this problem. Why does anyone still use MS messaging
products? It is almost like saying "infect me!" to the hackers of the world.
At 11/29/2001 12:48 PM, -- wrote:
>I got hit with the BadTrans.B virus from Tom Alexander (no blaming but be
>alert for an email from someone you don't know with an attachment. It
>launches automatically in the preview pane in MS Outlook and Outlook
>Express.) and may have inadvertently infected other people. It used
>Kernel32.exe to infect the system, so do a search for it.
>
>Microsoft has issued a patch
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/
>bulletin/MS01-020.asp ) but be leary of it. After installing it, my computer
>would not boot up at all. I had to re-install the OS. I am told that I have
>to upgrade to IE 6 in order to prevent it from occurring again.
>I guess it's time to seriously look at other email software to prevent this
>from happening again.
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