[boost] Re: Virus defense

From: Jarl Friis (jarl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-22 02:03:50

scleary_at_[hidden] writes:

> Hello, Boosters -
> 
> I am sure that many of you have received many e-mails from the
> W32.Sobig.F_at_mm
> (http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[e-mail]
> ) e-mail virus.
> 
> The problem with this virus is that it will spread itself to e-mail
> addresses - not just from Outlook's address book - but to any addresses it
> finds in the user's files.  e.g., HTML files on the user's hard drive.
> e.g., HTML files that are part of the Boost distribution.

That is not true! On the OS I am using it does not spread at all. All
this is a *Windows* related issue/problem, please don't use this
non-Windows forum to warn about security problems related to
Windows. Do it in a windows forum.

Jarl