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silentstalker
April 1st, 2002, 07:02 PM
Well people Im just alerting that certain worms have been going around attached as screen savers (some like the American Flag, others like Bill Clinton, etc.) and have been widely infecting computers. Stupid ****ing crackers...
Unleashed
April 1st, 2002, 07:12 PM
outlook express users, be aware!!!
souleman
April 1st, 2002, 07:36 PM
Worms that are attached as screen savers? My god, what will they think up next?
Unleashed> Does that mean I am ok, since I use oulook, and not outlook express?
Unleashed
April 1st, 2002, 07:49 PM
Originally posted here (http://www.AntiOnline.com/showthread.php?threadid=223531#post487497) by souleman
Unleashed> Does that mean I am ok, since I use oulook, and not outlook express?
Yes , you are ok, cause I think the worm which silentstalker mentioned does not know what oulook is , may be he knows what outlook mean but not oulook !
souleman
April 1st, 2002, 07:52 PM
I just renamed the executable file, so I am ok?
KorpDeath
April 1st, 2002, 08:25 PM
No. The worms use Outlook's API for the attack. Renaming it won't help.
cwk9
April 1st, 2002, 09:08 PM
Outlook is a worms best friend.
ASA
April 1st, 2002, 10:00 PM
Try using Norton-Antivirus, or McAffee against those creepy worms. Those anti-virus apps. really help.
Btw, .scr worms/viruses can do many malicious things just as the .exe viruses do.
B/c windoze treats them like executable files (almost).
:hiphop: :smokes:
souleman
April 1st, 2002, 11:18 PM
Umm, so you are saying that if I rename the API's then I can use oulook?
gold eagle
April 1st, 2002, 11:19 PM
don't use outlook if you can get away with it.
souleman
April 1st, 2002, 11:25 PM
Ummm, so what if I get an attachment with a .pif or a .lnk ending?
Avid
April 2nd, 2002, 01:29 AM
When you kick back after a day having coquered yet another
security issue.......along comes a worm.
Cant you use the free virus scanning e-mail accounts to be
safe Soulman.
JubeiDOK
April 23rd, 2002, 01:35 AM
reading this thread made me want to uninstall outlook express. I'm using XP and can't find a way to uninstall it. I looked in the add/remove programs list..no outlook..and i checked windows components and had the same result....so...how do i get rid of outlook?
draziw
April 23rd, 2002, 01:45 AM
Originally posted here (http://www.AntiOnline.com/showthread.php?threadid=#post) by JubeiDOK
reading this thread made me want to uninstall outlook express. I'm using XP and can't find a way to uninstall it. I looked in the add/remove programs list..no outlook..and i checked windows components and had the same result....so...how do i get rid of outlook?
Generic smart-alec'd answer: Install Mandrake