That appears to be a user comment (from someone who didn't even bother to
supply a fake name, much less a real one). To me, that is at best anecdotal
evidence. The story associated with this message board makes no mention of
any effect of the message being displayed in a preview pane; it does
explicitly mention clicking on the attachment.
Jerry
-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 7:22 AM
To: Jerry Eckert
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Today's reason not to run Windows
See http://www.zdnet.com/tlkbck/comment/22/0,7056,88759-421762,00.html to
support my assertions.
- Marc
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Jerry Eckert wrote:
> Marc Evans wrote:
> >
> >I beg to differ, but this is hadly the forum. The VB file attached is
> >immediately executed upon retrieval from the POP box. The user does not
> >have to open the message in any fashion, if the preview feature is
> >enabled.
>
> Why is it that none of the information releases from the antivirus vendors
> have mentioned this?
>
> As a test I just sent myself an E-mail with a .vbs file attached. When
the
> message was opened in the Outlook 98 preview pane the message body was
> displayed along with the standard attachment indicator. When I clicked on
> the attachment and selected it to open I then got an error from the VBS
> compiler (it was a bogus file since I don't have a real VBS script handy).
>
> Jerry
>
>
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