Can this virus affect win98 boxes without outlook? i.e., if the user runs
the attachment?

At 01:21 PM 5/6/00 +1200, you wrote:
>I think it's a wee bit cleverer than this.
>
>I understand that it re-assigns the default "viewer" for jpegs and layer for
>MP3's to act as if they are vbs files (which they now are) and thereby runs
>itself. when you try to run a  copy of itself which has a jpg extension.
>
>
>      Russell McMahon
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