[email protected] wrote:
--snip--Another "urban legend"Re mail programs, HTML allows virus contamination; plain text does not.
jr
Viruses happen because of the way some "programs are written", the language of a program has nothing to do with it.
Plain text, HTML, any language, can have viruses written using them. Even in DOS days we had viruses.
A virus is a "program", doesn't care what language is used. Programs tell your computer what to do, A virus is a program that tells your computer what to do, against your will or desire. Of course if you want to spread a virus you would write it in a language which is popular, wouldn't you. Thats why most (not all) viruses use the HTML language. Thats the language of web sites. Most viruses come from browsing web sites, not from mail. The mail is used to spread it after you get it from a web site.
A well written mail program will receive a virus but not allow it to do anything. Thats why Netscape mail is rarely affected by the run of the mill virus programs.
My Netscape mail displays a message "an illegal operation has been attempted" and freezes the computer, until I unfreeze it. It will not allow access to the address book or hard drive by any mail with out a manual input from the keyboard.
Well written mail programs don't have virus problems. Can't say the same for the Microsoft junk thats on the market. If your mail program has virus problems then you need to get one that doesn't, its that simple. :-) Programing makes the difference.
I have heard that "Opera" is a very nice program and has no virus problems. I have not used it. The Netscape mail program is called "Composer", part of the browser package.
Bless you, Bob Lee
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