On Aug 16, 4:44pm, Robbie Honerkamp wrote: > Subject: Re: [Fwd: Virus Alert] : : Not true. You can't get a virus from reading an email message. : >-- End of excerpt from Robbie Honerkamp
Actually, that depends upon your E'mail system. Microsoft mail allows you to send macros along with messages. These macros are automatically run when the message is read. I have first-hand experience with a "virus" (actually, a destructive macro) that was transmitted this way. ...but that's a hole in Microsoft mail. Obviously, this kind of thing could not be done via the standard Unix mail system (unless you had a MIME-aware mail reader that was willing to run Java code for you... Oooops!) Chris -)----- -- Christopher R. Hertel -)----- University of Minnesota [EMAIL PROTECTED] Networking and Telecommunications Services
