After three generations of e-mail, each attachment is around 800 kilobytes in size. But because the attachments are so big and take Outlook so long to generate, Sophos does not think that the virus will spread as far and as fast as the Love Bug. However, machines infected by the virus could suffer more damage because once it has mailed itself, the virus attempts to destroy most of the files on the hard drive. Only people running Microsoft's Outlook e-mail program for Windows are vulnerable. Dave Perry of Trend Micro said he hoped that increased awareness among e-mail users would hold back the spread of the new virus.
People tend to be a little more cautious.