Microsoft Outlook attracts more worms
Computer Fraud & Security · 2000
Two new E-mail worms are currently spreading in several locations around the world. The Kak worm has been found in the wild regularly over the past months, while the Irok worm has been isolated for the first time. They operate in very different ways, but both spread via Microsoft Outlook. The biggest difference to the end user is that Irok arrives in an attachment called IROK.EXE while Kak arrives in a regular E-mail that apparently has no attachment. In addition, Irok affects users of Microsoft Outlook, whereas Kak affects Outlook Express.