A good IT department wouldn't have allowed the installation of Outlook or Exchange -- the way 99.999% of these things spread.
Truth be told, the IT people are often overruled by management.
When Microsoft named a hollow marketing suit with no security experience, Scott Culp, head of security, that should have been a clue. Culp has since made quite a career at trying to shift blame from Outlook to various innocents.
People who don't run Outlook, Outlook Express, or Exchange, don't have these problems.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
You are wrong. It also spreads via ICQ and mIRC as well.
It's just as easy to write a virus for the other email programs out there. The main reason we see them written for Outlook/Outlook Express is because of the huge installed user base. No email client is completly immuned to viruses.
Agreed.
At home, I used to use Outlook Express. I MUCH prefer it to Eudora, but several months ago I reinstalled Eudora and quit using Outlook. It's just not worth the risk. And I'm still using Eudora 4, because 5 is so damned buggy. I really don't like Eudora, but I value my computer too much to use much of anything else.