Sorry, wrong. I was curious as to how much damage it could do. I opened it up in Notepad, saw what it did, and protected those files. I then opened the email IN EUDORA, NOT OUTLOOK. I clicked the attachment, and Outlook opened up. I got a message asking to make Outlook my default mail program, I cancelled, Outlook closed, and the script still ran and infected my computer. It didn't even show up in the Windows 98 task list to shut it down.
Personally, I think it is shoddy programming on Microsoft's part. At least Sun had the decency to forbid Java applets from messing around with resources local to the machine they run on, such as memory and disk files. Automatically run VBScript? Fine, no problem there. Let VBScript erase files without prompting *from Outlook*? Hell no. You want to write a VB executable, let it do anything you want. But once you open up the hordes of ignorant Outlook users to this "feature," you are asking for trouble.
I was running the Quake 3 test on my Pentium 200 MMX with Voodoo 1 and 64 megs of RAM no problem. I had X running, and was running a server and client all on the same machine and it played fine and other clients had no lag. Considering this machine was state-of-the-art three years ago, I don't see why new games have to have the newest hardware. They all don't. It depends on the programmer. Carmack is really good and writes efficient code. Other programmers do not. They rush products because they allow corporate suits to push them. Carmack doesn't. Blizzard doesn't either. They just delayed one of the most anticipated games, Diablo 2, beyond the Christmas season. Nobody interfered. Isn't it odd that id Software and Blizzard both make kick-ass games that run on most hardware? I can run Starcraft, Warcraft 2 BNE and Diablo all on that same Pentium 200 without a problem.
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Sorry, wrong. I was curious as to how much damage it could do. I opened it up in Notepad, saw what it did, and protected those files. I then opened the email IN EUDORA, NOT OUTLOOK. I clicked the attachment, and Outlook opened up. I got a message asking to make Outlook my default mail program, I cancelled, Outlook closed, and the script still ran and infected my computer. It didn't even show up in the Windows 98 task list to shut it down.
Personally, I think it is shoddy programming on Microsoft's part. At least Sun had the decency to forbid Java applets from messing around with resources local to the machine they run on, such as memory and disk files. Automatically run VBScript? Fine, no problem there. Let VBScript erase files without prompting *from Outlook*? Hell no. You want to write a VB executable, let it do anything you want. But once you open up the hordes of ignorant Outlook users to this "feature," you are asking for trouble.
I was running the Quake 3 test on my Pentium 200 MMX with Voodoo 1 and 64 megs of RAM no problem. I had X running, and was running a server and client all on the same machine and it played fine and other clients had no lag. Considering this machine was state-of-the-art three years ago, I don't see why new games have to have the newest hardware. They all don't. It depends on the programmer. Carmack is really good and writes efficient code. Other programmers do not. They rush products because they allow corporate suits to push them. Carmack doesn't. Blizzard doesn't either. They just delayed one of the most anticipated games, Diablo 2, beyond the Christmas season. Nobody interfered. Isn't it odd that id Software and Blizzard both make kick-ass games that run on most hardware? I can run Starcraft, Warcraft 2 BNE and Diablo all on that same Pentium 200 without a problem.