At 1:47 pm +0100 20/2/01, Aley Keprt wrote: > In other hand ILOVEYOU is not a real 'virus'. It is a >destructive program, which must be run!!! You can't activate it by reading >e-mails, unless you are mouse-fanatic and double click on all attachments, >even if they are very suspicious.
Not true - a lot of the new viruses exploit a hole in the javascript security model... some mailers (Outlook, I believe, and Netscape 6) will execute an attachment without you having to double click it, or even without opening the email: viewing it in the preview pane is often enough to trigger. But I can't think of one good reason to enable javascript in a mail client. Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier ---- ---- http://mnemotech.ucam.org/ --- -- r<2+ T<4* cSEL dMS hEn/CB<BL A4 S+*<++ C$++L/mP W- a-- Vh+seT+ (Cantab) 1.1.4
