September 1998

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Email Attachment Virus Alert!

Users of e-mail software, including Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape Email, and possibly others are vulnerable to this virus form. Its existence and impact has been confirmed by AUSCERT (http://www.auscert.org.au/),OUSPG(http://www.oulu.fi/) and NT Bugtraq( http://ntbugtraq.ntadvice.com/) virus tracking organizations.
In a nutshell, users that attempt to download, open, or launch a file attachment to an Email that has a name containing more than a certain number of characters CAN cause the program to unexpectedly terminate. Thought difficult, it is possible for a hacker to exploit this loophole and cause malicious code to be run on the computer. Microsoft has posted a patch for its products. See http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/ms98-008.htm. Netscape should also have info up by the time you're reading this.


What To Shoot?
 A recent survey by FPG International, a stock agency, confirmed that lifestyle and business subjects are the most popular subjects, followed in order by technology, nature, health and medicine, concepts, sports and travel. Notice that it's hard to shoot lifestyle and business without people, what we've been saying for 20 years.


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