RE: let's torture and kill virus writers

[Jerry Eckert]

>Unfortunatly, "Don't Open Attachments" doesn't solve the problem. With
>Outlook and Outlook Express, If you have the "Auto Preview" turned on,
>it will execute any VBScript that it finds embeded in the message. It's
>a "feature". So, basically, if you have that feature enabled, it will
>automatically execute the virus code.

Wasn't there a patch to limit what the auto-executed scripts could do?

In any case, this feature is irrelevant in this case because the script is
an attachment and can't be executed until the attachment is opened.

Jerry


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