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Among the many Newsletters I receive , one of my favorites is the weekly publication Netsurfer Digest. It contains an enormous amount of information, including book reviews!!! I'm sending ,to all of you, what they said. If anyone wants to subscribe to it please contact me off line, and I'll give you the information, its FREE, To: Subscribers of Netsurfer Digest:; Subject: Netsurfer Digest: Vol. 06, #17 NETSURFER DIGEST More Signal, Less Noise Volume 06, Issue 17 Tuesday, May 16, 2000 BREAKING SURF Severe Windows Security Bug and Fix This bug is quite bad, and has been known since last year. It became more of an issue after somebody figured out you could exploit it to propagate computer infections in the same manner as the ILOVEYOU worm, only with much more destructive results. Any PC running Internet Explorer 5.0 and/or Office 2000 can be attacked with e-mail attachments, even if the recipient does not open said attachments. You don't even have to be using Internet Explorer: just having it installed with default security settings makes you vulnerable. The techies among you can see the horror of the situation. Fortunately, a fix will patch the hole in under five minutes. Make sure all the Windows machines in your care apply the patch immediately. Incidentally, Microsoft has finally responded to this class of e-mail-delivered worms by redesigning how the Outlook e-mail client deals with attachments. PCWorld has the story. Bug: <http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms99-032.asp>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms99-032.asp Fix: <http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/iebuild/scriptlet/en/scriptlet.htm>http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/iebuild/scriptlet/en/scriptlet.htm Outlook: <http://www.officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/articles/out2ksecFileTypes.htm>http://www.officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/articles/out2ksecFileTypes.htm PCWorld: <http://www.pcworld.com/pcwtoday/article/0,1510,16721,00.html>http://www.pcworld.com/pcwtoday/article/0,1510,16721,00.html As Ever, Marjorie 67/12 <[log in to unmask]> Fort Lauderdale, Florida