backing up windows

[Ken Moffat]

Alma J Wetzker wrote:

>
> If you open the message while in windoze, then you are infected.  The 
> virus NEEDS the OS to respond before it can do it's thing.  If the OS 
> doesn't respond, and linux will not respond to a windoze targetted 
> attack unles wine responds, the virus never starts.
>
>     -- Alma
>

Are these sobig virii Outlook (express) specific, or are other mail 
clients, say Netscape (on windows) or eudora, vulnerable?

-- 
Ken