Don't know if this is accurate or not but I think it's worth checking out.

NetsaversCenter wrote:

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> Netsavers Software Newsletter, Vol. 37s: 01/25/99
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> Special Edition
>
> by Craig Stevens, EE
> http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Galaxy/2209/index.html
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> Security Update
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>
> Gaping Security Hole In IE/Outlook And Office
> By Peter Deegan
>
> If you have Office installed, and you use Internet Explorer to view an
> infected Web page, that page -- without your knowledge, or any action on your part -- can wreak
> havoc on your system. It can drop a virus, delete a folder, scramble data, send your tax files to
> Timbuktu... anything. Similarly, if you use Outlook 98 or later to view an infected HTML message,
> that message -- with no action on your part -- can do anything to your system.
>
> Anti-virus legend Dr. Vesselin Bontchev confirmed [this] report by showing me an HTML file that
> exploits the security hole. It's... scary.  It's way too easy to exploit, unlike some more obscure
> security problems you don't have to be a 'rocket scientist' to spread trouble. For that reason, WOW
> has decided to be quick about warning our readers to get the protective patch before examples of
> this spread 'in the wild.'
>
> At Microsoft, a team has been working day and night for the last few days to find a fix. Microsoft will
> be posting that fix in the next few hours.
>
> Let me make this really clear. Every single Office user who also uses Internet Explorer or Outlook 98
> or later, MUST INSTALL THIS PATCH. It's only a matter of time before some %$#@! cretin figures
> out how to exploit this hole. You -- and everyone you know -- needs protection NOW.
>
> There's actually TWO security patches out today. We're particularly concerned with the Word 97
> Template patch, but you should get the Forms 2.0 patch as well. More info on both problems below.
>
> Word 97 Template Security Patch:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/ms99-002.asp
> Microsoft Security Bulletin
>
> http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/downloaddetails/wd97sp.htm
> Office Update Download Page
>
> Forms 2.0 Security Patch:<br>
> http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/downloaddetails/fm2paste.htm
> Office Update Download Page
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/ms99-001.asp
> Microsoft Security Bulletin
>
> Please. Take a few seconds to forward this article to everyone you know who doesn't subscribe to
> WOW. Urge them in no uncertain terms to get the patches, and apply them immediately.
>
> All I ask is that you keep this article intact -- don't change it -- and that you send it in its entirety. If
> there are any updates, we'll post them to href="http://www.wopr.com/ immediately.
>
> And thanks to WOWser DavidF. Excellent work, my man.
>
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> Y2K Update
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>
> WASHINGTON (AP) -- Citing the Year 2000 computer problem, Prodigy Communications Corp. is
> telling its 208,000 subscribers it will shut down its pioneer "Prodigy Classic" online service.
>
> Prodigy notified customers nationwide by e-mail late Friday it could not avoid the effects of the so-
> called "Y2K" problem and by October must shut down one of the most well-established
> neighborhoods in cyberspace.
>
> The company said the Year 2000 problem was not expected to affect the 433,000 subscribers of its
> newer "Prodigy Internet" service, launched in late 1996, and it encouraged its Classic subscribers to
> enroll there.
>
> Prodigy's chief executive officer, Samer Salameh, sent e-mail to subscribers explaining that the
> company's 9-year-old Classic service was "built using proprietary technologies that predate current
> Internet standards" and the company's engineers were "unable to make them Y2K compliant."
>
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