In message <39136985(_dot_)9052D499(_at_)acm(_dot_)org>, Brant Knudson writes:
I think I'm starting to see a pattern emerging in email viruses.
Melissa: Uses script to read user's address book to get the email
addresses of new victims.
ILOVEYOU: Uses script to read user's address book to get the email
addresses of new victims.
What method do you think the next email virus is going to use if
Microsoft doesn't stop scripts from reading people's address books? Why
didn't MS plug this hole after Melissa?
Hardly new -- the IBM Christmas Card Virus, in 1987 (yes, before the Morris
Worm) used the exact same technique.
--Steve Bellovin