HUMOR ALERT was re: Semi-OT: Basic EMail Package?
Brian Bay
babay at mediaone.net
Thu May 17 20:00:48 EDT 2001
Hi Folks,
This was posted to to ne.internet.services news group and wanted
to pass it along.
Note: this is intended as humor and shouldn't be taken serious.
Any resemblance between humor and reality is purely coincidental.
:-) feel free to send copies to everyone in your address book.
--Cheers,
Brian
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The following was forwarded to me by a friend who works as a
software
quality assurance engineer. As it is relevant to the above
remarks,
I pass it along without further comment:
ABCD Note
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Topic: FYI: Microsoft's Outlook
Author: Bruce
Date: 11:01 AM Today
Content: Outlook Microsoft's virus distribution software
believed to have a serious bug.
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FOOT-AND-MOUTH BELIEVED TO BE FIRST VIRUS
UNABLE TO SPREAD THROUGH MICROSOFT OUTLOOK
Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Symantec's
AntiVirus
Research Center today confirmed that foot-and-mouth disease
cannot be
spread by Microsoft's Outlook email application. This is
believed to
be the first time the program has ever failed to propagate a
major
virus. "Frankly, we've never heard of a virus that couldn't
spread
through Microsoft Outlook, so our findings were, to say the
least,
unexpected," said Dr. Clive Sarnow, director of the CDC's
infectious
disease unit.
Executives at Microsoft, meanwhile, were equally skeptical,
insisting
that Outlook's patented Virus Transfer Protocol (VTP) has
proven
virtually pervious to any virus. The company, however, will
issue a
free VTP patch if it turns out the application is not
vulnerable to
foot-and-mouth.
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Cheers,
The Old Bear
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