At 23:23 08-10-1999 +0200, koos de heer wrote: >Hi Chris, > >At 01:16 08-10-1999 -0700, you wrote: >>Could anybody tell me if I got happy.exe if I receive the list in digest >>form? I didn't see an attachment to Audrey's email, just a lot of ASCII >>gibberish. > >the ascii gibberish is the encoded attachment. >(that's one of the reasons it is not such a good >idea to send attachments.) > >if you see the gibberish, the attachment has >not been decoded and can not harm you. > In addition: normaly this means that the sender has coded the attachement in a certais code mode (ex: MIME or BinHex) and your systems is translating it in a different code mode.
If you are receiving an attachement from a person that you Know, try to ask what is the code mode and change yours in accordance. You normally have a "tools" or "options" function where you can change that. If you receive an attachment from a mailing lis or someone you don't know NEVER oppen it. And, if you do, at least desable all the macros... Regards Artur PS: I will present myself soon...
