[wplug] email viruses

[Mark Sikora]

Actually,  if you have patched outlook with sr-2 then a .vbs attached will
automatically execute if you simply view the message in the preview pane.
This is to make the program more useful.  You don't have to download the
attachment.  M$ for us all.


On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Nathan Powell wrote:

> 2 questions... 1 how can you get an eamil virus without having an
> attachment, and two, if you see an attachment on this list(what reason would
> anyone have to send attachments) why would you download it???
>
>
> >From: "James O'Kane" <jo2y at midnightlinux.com>
> >Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
> >To: WPLUG <wplug at wplug.org>
> >Subject: [wplug] email viruses
> >Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 21:52:12 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> >Hi,
> >	At least one person on this list is infected with one of those
> >email viruses. Please track it down and fix it before I track you down and
> >post your name publically as someone who still uses MS products.
> >
> >-james
> >
> >
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