backing up windows

[Tim Wunder]

On Saturday 23 August 2003 9:26 am, someone claiming to be Ken Moffat wrote:
> 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?

If the user clicks on the executable file attachment, regardless of mail 
client, they can get infected. Although, I think it'll only mail itself out 
if the user has an Outlook, or Outlook Express address book.; or possibly a 
text file containing addresses.

Check 
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/pf/w32.sobig.f@mm.html

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