[X Newbies] Viruses

[Randy B. Singer]

Chris Foote said:

>The nasty worms going around grab 
>email addresses from the hard drive to spoof the source. They don't 
>affect the Mac except to keep us in a constant shower of dead worms.


Actually, there is a (rare) virus that can infect Macs and which spoofs 
addresses.  It is called the Simpsons virus.  However, it only infects 
Outlook Express under OS 8/9:

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_99102.htm

http://www.macintouch.com/simpsonsvirus.html

Randy B. Singer
Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions)

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