On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 19:18:26 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
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> It has long been believed that it is impossible to transmit a virus with
> an ascii text file. I have recently heard a story that Micro$oft Outlook
> can be infected with a straight-up ascii email message, but I have not
> yet attempted to confirm whether the tale is true.
Sam ......I guess it all depends with what YOUR Client does with that
ascii text message......if it is a .BAT file, and your Brows/Mail/etc
Client opens it and stupidly does what it says to do.....then you can
lose everything on all your HDD and Zip Drives, and maybe even your
CDROM drives...and smoke your monitor, and.....lose your sanity, too.
........gregy
BTW...the way MzSoft et al are going with ActiveX, javajunk, etc, that
is what is really the direction we are heading......except for us
non-aX, non-java retrograde computerists....
-- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
