Marc Evans wrote:
>
>I wish this were true, but it sadly is not. The MS Outlook program has a
>"feature" which previews messages. Anyone who has that feature turned on,
>which I believe it is by default, would become infected simply by
>retrieving messages from theie pop/imap/whatever box.

The Outlook preview pane displays the message content, not the attachments.
There are certain attacks which can be launched when a message is displayed
in the preview pane; however, none of the official announcements I've seen
so far have given any indication such is the case with this worm.

Jerry


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