Forum Archive Index - June 2003

[Robin Benson <rob@hammerheadmedia.co.uk>]

Somebody said that Microsoft Outlook "makes a simple concept like email into a complicated, inefficient security nightmare."

I'd have to agree.

Robin

disc: Mac OS X, Apple Mail.app, virus immune, simple and efficient.

On Tuesday, Jun 24, 2003, at 10:57 Europe/London, Dave Missen wrote:

> There appears to be a virus doing the rounds in the sharechat group at the moment - a variant of the Melissa virus.  While fairly harmless it can cause problems to Word templates etc.  Gets in through a hole in the Microsoft Outlook stable of programmes - there is a patch available to fix the hole (A Bill Gate's Straw?? - handy for buckets also) directly from Microsoft Update.  A good virus checker will also get it (provided you don't turn it off to speed up database type programmes like I did).