Re: OT:Not a virus Hoax
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- Subject: Re: OT:Not a virus Hoax
- From: s*@ptw.com (Slc.Dennis Bishop)
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 14:09:07 -0700
From: starlord@ptw.com (Slc.Dennis Bishop)
>From: Chad Schroter <Chad.Schroter@qntm.com>
>
>Today our local paper (SJ Mercury News) reported that Finnish researchers
>have discovered a "hole" in many popular E-mail programs including Netscape
>and Microsoft Outlook Express. Some companies have published patches on
>their respective websites that address the problem, if you are not sure you
>may want to try to contact your company. The nature of the hole is that the
>message headers contain the destructive operations and it includes an
>attachment - however downloading the attachment is not required to trigger
>the action. In fact just deleting a message w/o reading it is not protection
>enough under some SW.
>
>To date no-one has identified such an EMAIL message so don't panic, but try
>and find out if a patch is required for your SW.
>
>Please do not repeat or forward this message - I am not trying to create a
>chain here.
>
>Chad Schroter Firmware Design Engineer
>Quantum Email: Chad.Schroter@qntm.com
>
>
Better yet, Go Atari, 100% Safe Computing!
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