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Its really sick and twisted actually. We just took four of our client machines offline wile we clean them because of a new magistrate variant. We use Eudora here as well. When a user opens the viral code it looks for outlook express to spread and checks outlook address books, Eudora address books as well as temporary internet files for anything *@*.* and send to them too. It seems that the most recent string of virii have gone beyond the 13 year old AOLer with a downloaded virus construction kit. These guys are code wizards using their powers for the dark side. :) And it also seems that the amount of virii in circulation has reached an all time high. On 12/17/01 10:03 AM, "Chris Wolf" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > At 09:34 AM 12/17/2001 -0500, you wrote: >> The problem with this is that Trojans and virii will still >> use it to propagate even if it isn't the default mail client. > > If you don't have OE configured for an email account, and there is no > address book set up, how can anything use it to propagate? We use Eudora, > but leave OE on the computers. Although several Eudora users have managed > to infect their computers with Outlook-targeted viruses (by opening > attachments) over the last few years, we have never seen them spread beyond > the infected computer, because there was no address book to use. > > > --------------------------------------------- > Chris Wolf Computer Service Manager > [log in to unmask] Agricultural Economics > 517 353-5017 Michigan State University > > "Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house." > --Fran Lebowitz