On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 05:02 PM, Beth Ernst wrote: > Do NOT open the email if you can avoid it. ?The GIF/JPG files > called in the hidden html tags will "ping" the sender alerting > them that the email is being accessed. > > You can avoid this by > a) opening the email while NOT connected to a network > b) running email client in TEXT only (HTML turned OFF)
Thanks, Beth! Fortunately I am not part of a network, but unfortunately I had HTML turned on. Do you know whether this garbage can infiltrate a Mac? I'm now going to run Virex on my whole system, which will take a good long time. Alex -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 675 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20030918/d1fb4cc3/attachment.bin
