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From: Joe Makowiec <>
Subject: Re: OT [TMG] Virus or what?? HTML
Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 13:40:25 -0400
References: <LOBBKOOEANNIIOJMJAELAEJKEAAA.earbar@netway.com><5.1.0.14.0.20020504063811.009f9aa0@pop.sprynet.com>
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At 10:36 AM 5-4-2002 -0400, Theresa Greene Reed wrote:
>NO ! NO ! It is not safe in my copy of Outlook Express to click on the
>message line (line with the icon, name of sender, subject, and date ant time
>received) for an infected message without actually receiving the virus or
>worm when the Preview pane is open.

The preview pane is your problem. Disable it. As I Understand It, opening
a message in the preview pane is the same (from the message's point of
view) as opening it in the regular read message pane. Which is to say, the
code in the message gets run.



Joe
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