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Old March 20th, 2002, 11:46 AM     #31 (permalink)
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The message had a script that executed the attachment.


And when the folx with the preview pane open their mail box it takes off?
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Outlook (and for that matter, some other Microsoft products) are not as secure is some other products with fewer features.

And because it's so popular they write to that software. One of the lesser known progys isn't worth their time. Another reason I always used Pegasus.

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Old March 20th, 2002, 12:29 PM     #32 (permalink)
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Wait would someone explain that to me?
A script in the message, would trigger and executable file?
There must be more to it than that...???
Was it some kind of Active X thing?
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