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Do you use Microsoft applications on your home or office machines?

Internet Explorer versions 4.0 and 5.0 and Microsoft Office 2000 are
vulnerable to viruses which can be launched even *without* a user opening
an attachment.  The hole can be patched in less than five minutes by
visiting:

http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/iebuild/scriptlet/en/scriptlet.htm

Many virus watchers believe that the next major destructive virus will
take advantage of this Microsoft error to spread very rapidly.  It is
likely that the current nasty bug (the Resume virus - a Melissa variant)
will, in the near future, be combined with this vulnerability to create a
highly destructive program capable of causing extensive damage to the
files on your hard disks.  *Please* act now if you use any of this
software. Five minutes of patching is worth hours of restoring files...

(You *did* back up up your files, right?)

Sheila Ettinger
Analyst/System Administrator
IITS - Concordia University

P.S.

FYI, Microsoft is taking steps to significantly beef up the security
options in Outlook 98 and Outlook 2000.  For more information, visit the
OutlooK E-mail Security Update page:

http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/articles/out2ksecarticle.htm

Microsoft's security site is located at:

http://www.microsoft.com/security/