Re: Corpora: that virus!

From: R.Krishnamurthy (in6052@wlv.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Apr 01 2000 - 05:05:04 MET DST

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    I thought a previous posting to this list had said that the
    "KAK" virus worked because of a loophole in the Outlook
    Express program, and that Microsoft had a patch which
    closed the loophole, rendering "KAK" and any future virus
    which tried to use that loophole powerless...
    Does anyone else remember this?
    I'm sure I went to the relevant URL and downloaded the
    patch (I use Outlook Express on another machine at home).
    Ramesh

    Honorary research fellow, Wolverhampton and Birmingham

    On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Gordon and Pam Cain wrote:

    > Has anyone found out how to actually kill the blessed thing? I'm
    > assuming that I don't have it -- I'm on Netsacpe -- but obviously the
    > info I found was less-than-complete.
    >
    > And I didn't find any advice on how to get rid of it, and someone else
    > had to quarantine it, not kill it. . .
    >
    > Is just deleting all files with 'KAK' in the name adequate? Somehow I
    > doubt it.
    >
    > Thanks to anyone with wisdom and expertise on this!
    >
    >
    > Cheers!
    > Gordon
    > --
    > Gordon Cain
    > Teacher of ESOL
    > TAFE International Education Centre
    > Liverpool (Sydney) Australia
    > gpcain@rivernet.com.au
    >
    >
    >
    >



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