The Tuesday 2004-01-20 at 10:14 +0200, jaska wrote:
I was also suspecting something like that, but didn't told my spouse that yet...
It is good to know, now there is one more nail in the coffing of M$ again!
Mind you, I can not certify it, but it certainly looks like that. An address book which is not on the user own directory (somewhere under /win.../profile/username/), and simply named "~", smells of one of those viruses out there that are designed to exploit a hole in Outlook and get sent to everybody on the address book.
I just wish she switched over to Linux totally.. She has a dual-boot with SuSE 9.0, but that version seems to be a little unstable / weird in some areas..
At least, she could use Netscape or Mozilla, or Eudora, for the mail. Anything but Outlook, that is like a kitchen strainer (holes, you know) - unfortunate, because the program is certainly good looking. There is a new virus out there, with a subject line of "Hi": the radio said that today it has infected around 30000 computers in Spain alone. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson