Re: Virus Question

Andrew, I thought I wiould answer your question about why Microsoft created
Visual Basic in the first place.
It was made because it is more user friendly and while at the same time easy
to learn, it is easy to create powerful windows based applications. Right,
on the note of the viruses, I can say that I haven't goten any in my inbox.
:-)

Matthew


< ----- Original Message ----- >
> > From: Andrew Angelopoulos [mailto:angelopoulos(at)csi.com]
> > Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 8:06 PM
> > To: Blue Tapp; HWG Basics
> > Subject: Re: Virus Question
> >
> >
> > Yup. I got quiet a few. It takes e-mail addresses from both
> > your address
> > book and those found in your browser cache (supposedly). It
> > then uses its
> > own SMTP server (now located on your machine)  to bounce
> > e-mails against
> > tanother server (relay) to the intended recipients (maybe
> > this explains the
> > weird addresses).
> >
> > First it tries the server that sent it to you! If that server
> > has beent
> > taken down or fixed it tries a couple of default ones (I think
> > doubleclick.com was one).
> >
> > What I don't understand (*techie rant*) is why people insist
> > on opening up
> > files with two extensions (I mean filename.doc.exe is a bit
> > suspicious--I
> > know not everybody knows, but I had to complain). Just like
> > annkournikova.jpg.vb. Everybody saw anna, and jpg and didn't
> > hesitate to
> > open it when they couldn't explain the vb part (ok, not
> > everybody, guys
> > mostly). Why did MS create VB anyway?
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >

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