-=> Steven Horn said to Charles Angelich
 -=> about "FTP07" on 04-16-03  22:14.....

 SH> Do remember that if they make the mistake of opening the e-mail, what
 SH> is sent is sent automatically. 

Most times the infected message has the From: field as the last
sucker who received it. Or from someone in his address book. So
the recipient thinks it is a legitimate message.

 SH> That would help if the offending message came in from outside the
 SH> Intranet.  But would it save me if I received a message from my wife
 SH> who works for the same employer as I do which said "I love you"? 

I'm surprised they didn't vary the Subj: from one message to the
next. One sneaky trick would be to copy messages from the Sent
Messages folder and resend them in infected form.

 SH> However the "love bug" virus showed up at a time when
Norton and McAfee
 SH> had not yet released their latest virus definition files.

The definition files can only define those viruses that have
already been found in circulation, so they are always at least
one step behind.

I doubt that many virus writers notify Norton or McAfee _before_
they release the virus.

OTOH it is claimed that F-PROT uses a "heuristic" approach,
whatever that is, and it will be able to detect many viruses that
are presently unwritten.

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