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Article #22virus unabel to spread through microsoft outlook
From: giskart
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:48
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:48
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 FOOT-AND-MOUTH BELIEVED TO BE FIRST VIRUS UNABLE TO SPREAD THROUGH MICROSOFT OUTLOOK Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Symantec's AntiVirus Research Center today confirmed that foot-and-mouth disease cannot be spread by Microsoft's Outlook email application, believed to be the first time the program has ever failed to propagate a major virus. "Frankly, we've never heard of a virus that couldn't spread through Microsoft Outlook, so our findings were, to say the least, unexpected," said Clive Sarnow, director of the CDC's infectious disease unit.... Executives at Microsoft, meanwhile, were equally skeptical, insisting that Outlook's patented Virus Transfer Protocol (VTP) has proven virtually pervious to any virus. The company, however, will issue a free VTP patch if it turns out the application is not vulnerable to foot-and-mouth. - - - - - - - Ik kon het mij echt niet laten -- followup-to be.jokes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> Comment: BigBrother is waching You ! Encrypt ! LookForEchalonOnTheWeb iQA/AwUBOsDgXNbK+5nQyLc9EQKMbACgq/KQ+VRg2qRpgyJGPXWzcVCl3PQAnAk6 Y7HCpm89UEBCNumjbshwlmYk =wyV7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Belgian ADSL-forum: giskart.net See also users.skynet.be/turbotest giskart@deadspam.com is invalid contact: giskartNQSP@Myahoo.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4ad3,2bf215a4a46086b,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf4ad3,public X-Google-Thread: 1037ec,2bf215a4a46086b,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1037ec,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-27 10:51:03 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!194.176.220.130!newsfeed.icl.net!skynet.be!louie!not-for-mail From: giskart@deadspam.com (giskart) Newsgroups: be.jokes,be.comp.internet Subject: virus unabel to spread through microsoft outlook Followup-To: be.jokes Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:48:23 GMT Reply-To: giskart@deadspam.com Message-ID: <3ac0de6d.16349568@news.skynet.be> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Lines: 48 Organization: -= Skynet Usenet Service =- NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.13.22.27 X-Trace: 985718907 reader1.news.skynet.be 30792 195.13.22.27 X-Complaints-To: abuse@skynet.be