Just another reason to make yourself MS free. Personally, I think all the "patches" MS keeps coming up with are just sneaky ways to get spyware into millions of systems around the world. Think about it, even in America, could any product be as shoddy as Windows or need as much after-sale maintenance?
And you ought to hear my theory on the Apollo 13 "disaster." rob Alex Whitman wrote: > 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 | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
