Information Security News: Welcome to Planet Microsoft.

[William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>]

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http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000504/wr/virus_love_11.html

``Viruses are really an industry-wide issue,'' said Scott Culp, program
  manager for Microsoft's security response center.  ''They can be
  written for any platform. They can be written to use a variety of e-mail
  clients.

``In this case the virus author chose to target Outlook probably
  because it gave him better reach,'' he said. ``THERE ISN'T A SECURITY
  VULNERABILITY IN OUTLOOK INVOLVED IN THIS AT ALL,'' Culp said.

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