Hello Mike, On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 04:48:14 +0000 GMT (29/12/02, 11:48 +0700 GMT), Mike Alexander wrote:
JA>> Could you please enlighten me as to what viruses TB! is susceptible JA>> to? You'll only be infected with a virus through TB! if you were JA>> foolish enough to launch the file without checking it first, or JA>> trusting the source explicitly, and still launching it. > I agree. Except for Trojans of course. How can you ben infected through TB with a trojan? > And as long as you keep all your mail incoming to text only. No, TB's HTML rendering engine does not allow code to run. > And as long as you don't click on something sent to you by a friend. > And as long as you don't click on something by accident. In both these cases, you have to either actually switch off the Warning feature in TB, or ignore the warning. so, accidents are not really possible, and TB will allow you to open the file sent to you by a friend, because TB assumes you know what you are doing when you click the warning away. I would not like TB to nanny me that far. > And as long as you have AV software to make sure none of the above > happens if you don't take the necessary precautions for one reason > or another. There are enough people who don't run AV software for email, as long as they run TB. It is pretty difficult to start a received malware by accident from within TB. ;-) -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Important warning for aircraft pilots: Teeth that have been improperly filled cause problems with altitude or rapid decompressions. The higher pressure under the filling will cause excruciating pain and in rare instances can cause the tooth to explode. An exploding tooth would be distracting. Message reply created with The Bat! 1.62 Christmas Edition under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
