At 03:40 PM 9/25/2001, Mick Kalber wrote: >But it is my understanding (and experience) that if you >do not open it it will not harm your computer nor self-replicate, correct? Correct. Snowhite depends primarily on "social engineering" to actually infect your machine, i.e. on the hope that you'll be titillated by the expected dirty picture or what-have-you and will run the attachment. OTOH there are other much newer worms like NIMDA which can under some circumstances run without your consent. You're running Outlook Express 5.0x -- you need to be sure that your Internet Explorer is updated to at least IE 5.01 SP2 or IE 5.5 SP2 to avoid being extremely vulnerable to Nimda. See http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-027.asp and/or run the Windows Update tool. This vulnerability actually applies to *any* mail software that uses Internet Explorer to render HTML mail -- including Eudora if it's set to use the Microsoft Browser. I am getting truly sick of this stuff -- and this is my trade, more or less. I don't know how ordinary users can keep up with the flood of ingenious new attacks, except by devoting a lot more attention to it than anybody wants to. david David Beierl - Providence, RI http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage" '85 GL "Poor Relation" |
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