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Re: Grrr... another virus
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Date: 
Thu, 22 Jun 2000 18:28:35 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Matthew Miller writes:
Shiri Dori <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote:
My mom got an email laballed "Fwd: JOKE". When she opened it, it replaced
Just from opening it? Don't you have to click on the attachment?

Not necessarily, using MS Outlook.  In some configurations, it seems to open
attachments automagically.  Considering that these newer virii are Visual Basic
scripts, this doesn't surprise me in the slightest.  Didn't Bill Gates argue to
the judge that by breaking up Microsoft, they wouldn't be able to control these
virii easily?

I smell a conspiracy...  No wait, that's just the leftover spamcake.

Cheers,
- jsproat



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  Re: Grrr... another virus
 
(...) Ahhh, true. That's what my mom uses, and it does open attachments automatically... so I guess that's it. -Shiri Spamcake... hrmph. (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) Just from opening it? Don't you have to click on the attachment? (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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