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Re: Grrr... another virus
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Date: 
Thu, 22 Jun 2000 18:39:50 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
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.

Ahhh, true. That's what my mom uses, and it does open attachments
automatically... so I guess that's it.

-Shiri
Spamcake... hrmph.



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  Re: Grrr... another virus
 
Shiri, I think you can change the Outlook settings so that attachments are NOT automatically previewed or opened. Paul Sinasohn LUGENT #115 (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  Re: Grrr... another virus
 
(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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