As far as I know, ILOVEYOU can't be activated by previewing received e-mail.
If you read this somewhere, please let me know and I'll look too.
I heard that there exist a 'virus' which is activated without clicking an
attachment, but that 'virus' resides in e-mail, not in an attachment.
Or am I wrong? Really? Please let me know.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Collier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] Pass it on, spread it around - my summary
> 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
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