>>Although MickeySoft screws up regularly in security, the main reason it is the primary target for viruses, worms and trojans is its widespread use and popularity. If Eurora was as widely used as Outlook, you would see viruses and worms targeted to it.
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>Not to be argumentative, but Outlook's ability to run scripts embedded in HTML is the reason it is so susceptible. A plain Old Email readers like Eudora (version 3.x esp) do not do anything but render text, so there is no way to write a virus to 'target' Eudora, regardless of how popular it is.
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>Furthermore, this virus is really making use of the WSH objects, so in fact it is targeting M$ at its new technologies--and pointing how easy it for a trojan horse to be run by the 5 thousand concealed shells in Windows.
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>Later,
>Bill


Point mainly taken -- though I suspect that any market leader would have ended up putting in some sort of increased scripting capability leading to increased problems of this sort -- possibly not with quite the vulnerablity of outlook. Not the sort of thing that can be proved ...