Re: viruses

Hi there,

Most viruses are spread via attachments.

HOwever, there was one famous one called the kak virus that
that could be received just by looking at an html e-mail. The
particular thing it exploited was fixed, but of course many continue to
have the older unpatched versions of Outlook Express, and so are vulnerable to it
One may have it already without knowing about it if one doesn't have
an AV program.

It worked by infecting the signature line of an e-mail.

It is pretty harmless. Now and again the user would get a message saying
Kak says no for this evening, when you try to turn on your computer
- 11th of every month at 4 p.m.

Also occasional strange messages with the word Kak in it.
You can get free Kak cleaners to remove it, and of course,
install the patch for Outlook Express.

I believe there have been others like that too. These are the
details about kak:

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/wscript.kakworm.html

If one doesn't want to get Norton, McAFFee or Dr Solomon,
You can get a program called AVG anti virus. which is free for
personal use and has had excellent reports. It doesn't make much
sense to run a p.c. without any virus protection as one so often
hears of someone losing data because of one.

http://www.grisoft.com/html/us_index.html

Robert

Many thanks Robert Walker,

for saving us all by finding "Expand Messages". And many thanks also
for your tireless efforts to maintain an archive independent of Yahoo.

Best Regards,
-- Dave Keenan