Kobuta - I had and have the greatest of respect for the moderators of these forums, and I was not attacking WWW - but I was questioning his risk assessment. Please don't construe that as a personal attack (and apologies if it was taken as such).
And I respectfully and humbly disagree that this is not of interest to the air transportation industry. It may not (directly) cause aircraft to drop out of the sky, but there are a lot of systems on which the industry depends (for example - rostering systems - which are not trivial) which may use e-mail which can cause a fair amount of chaos. This is Denial of Service (DoS). It may not be Mission Critical, but it can (and does) cause organisational chaos which ripples out and has all sorts of unanticipated effects.
And Capt PPRuNe - feeling smug because you're using an Apple Mac doesn't really help the situation - the fact remains that a lot of people do use Windows (whether they like it or not) and this is a serious problem, not only to the world as a whole, but to the airline industry too.
You're right - in many ways Windows sucks, but a "holier than thou" attitude doesn't help.
And plenty of people have been hit (myself included) even though they took reasonable precautions. I suspect that the really masty and scary bit about this virus is that it overwrites files that the poor unsuspecting users (and other applications on the computer) don't realise are infected.
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Feline
(I Sit, I Watch, I Smile)
[This message has been edited by Feline (edited 05 May 2000).]