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To: nommedeguerre who wrote (23144)	3/29/1999 10:44:00 PM
From: XiaoYao	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

It doesn't matter what application the virus is targeted to. As long as an application support programmability, it is vulnerable to this type of attack. In Word/Excel, it is just VBA scripts. I don't know much of Java, I think if you can create an email with an attachment that would run some Java script, it would have a similar effect. Hackers always target the most popular apps or OS. Like I said before, if everyone is a little bit careful, he/she should be OK. You shouldn't enable macro unless you really sure what you are doing.