[Jeff Chandler]

Most viruses are written for Word, Outlook, and Outlook Express. Since the Outlook mail clients use Internet Explorer for their display windows, a virus could be sent as an attachment, and an embedded script in the message could open the virus, which then does what it wishes to your computer before sending replicates of itself to every name in your Outlook address book.

If the virus is a very recent variant, no virus protection program would recognize it. Your only protection would be a program such as Hacker Eliminator.

All my computers run on MS OSs, but I no longer use MS mail clients because they are too darned vulnerable.

[xrp]

Most viruses are written for Word, Outlook, and Outlook Express.

Well, no kidding...You don't suppose it has anything to do with the fact that hackers/crackers aim for MAXIMUM effect and Word, Outlook and Outlook Express are the most widely used word processing program and email programs in use all across the planet do you???

If anything else ever takes the mantle, the hackers/crackers will change gears.

BIND (Berekeley Internet Name Domain), OpenSSH, Apache, and sendmail, the most widely used DNS application, secure shell application, web server application and email server application all run on UNIX systems!