Jargons of Info Tech industry

Wed Oct 12 20:22:04 EDT 2005

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:46:12 GMT, Tim Tyler <tim at tt1lock.org>  wrote
or quoted :

>Viruses can mail out change of address messages to everyone in the
>compromised machine's address book today.
>
>Of course, viruses don't bother doing that - since it's stupid and
>pointless.

A virus is interested in the address book mainly if there as a way it
can send itself to other machines, get at their address book in a
fission explosion and spread without human intervention.

The key that makes that possible is Microsoft's features for running
self-executing code in emails.  That is the problem. It has nothing to
do with formatting or pictures.
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