The alternate to this theory is that writers of a virus or trojan will
target/exploit the most common system. It happens that Outlook/Windows
are the most prevalent email & platform now. In the future, if Larry
gets his way, it could be Mac, and we'll have Mac virii spreading
everywhere. If The Bat from RITLABS was the most common email platform,
virii would target it for sure. Remember way back before Microsoft?
There were still worms and virii. Give me a cookie. All systems have
weaknesses.
Adrian
http://www.midgetweb.com
-----Original Message-----
From Bill L [mailto:pythias at pacifier.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 8:59 AM
To: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re[2]: Run your Antivirus Program
Hello listers
most of the problems with becoming infected with email
virii, both in sending and receiving and be alleviated if
people would just STOP USING OUTLOOK as your email
program. you would be amazed at much spam is also cut
stopped as well.
most of these virii spread because of the ubiquity of
OUTLOOK and are programmed to use its address book and
its address book alone. also, OUTLOOK and INTERNET
EXPLORER are tightly integrated, so that any time you
visit a web sight, they can retrieve YOUR email
address...
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