Viruses and Bugs- Melissa
mutations keep coming,
Yahoo/ZDNet, 10/19.
- Experts
assess risks surrounding "Thursday"
virus, ZDNet, 9/2. "It must be
Thursday. I never did get the hang of Thursdays." High
risk for Word 97 users. (Yup, Windows only.)
- Melissa
variant pokes fun at Bill
Gates, Infoworld, 8/10.
Windows-only virus says Gates guilty of
monopoly.
- Viruses:
The danger of relevancy,
Apple's Orchard. "As the Mac OS continues to gain market
share and continues to pop up in the media we will have
to deal with more and more Mac viruses."
- Some
Macs may be suceptible to
virus, MacWEEK, 6/11. Macs
sharing files with an infected Windows computer
vulnerable to Worm.ExploreZip virus.
- Dangerous
email worm crawls net, Wired
News, 6/10. "Both Intel and Microsoft closed down large
sections of their email networks...."
Also see Devastating
email worm on the loose,
ZDNet, 6/11. "You're a target if you use Windows 95, 998,
or NT and Microsoft Outlook or Exchange for email." What,
no Mac support? ;-) - CIH
1.2 (Chernobyl) virus set to attack April
26, ZDNet, 4/23
Find out why Windows 95/98 users are in a panic today --
and be grateful you don't have to worry about it if
you're using the Mac OS, Linux, or some other "minority"
OS. - New
Windows 95/98 email virus,
boa.exe, ZDNet, 4/9
"It's nowhere near as annoying -- or potentially damaging
-- as the Melissa virus...." - Everyone's
talking about Melissa,
Macinsite, 3/29
Melissa can't infect Macs, but could send you
spam. - "Melissa"
email virus outbreak,
MacTimes, 3/27
"If that document is opened and the [Word] macro
virus is allowed to run, it is possible for it to send
e-mail to a number of other users." - HAPPY99.EXE
infects Win 95, Win 98,
Symantec (thanks, Scambusters)
- Alarm
over new "smart" virus
(Windows NT only), ZDNet, 12/21
- HTML.Internal
limited to Internet Explorer,
TechWeb
- c|net's Bugs
upon bugs page tracks security
holes. Currently, 4 of 5 bugs listed are in Microsoft
products.
- CIH
virus infects thousands of [Win95/98]
users, ZDNN, "This bug kills
computers dead."
- Security
flaw in Outlook Express,
MacWEEK
- CIH
virus attacks Win95/98
computers, University of Texas
at Austin
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