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From: "Theresa Greene Reed" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] OT - anti-virus "superstition"?
Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 04:31:37 -0400
References: <LOBBKOOEANNIIOJMJAELAEJKEAAA.earbar@netway.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20020504063811.009f9aa0@pop.sprynet.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20020504212852.009ff6e0@pop.sprynet.com>


Darrell,

> Clicking on the line on the list does not open an attachment
> in any of the e-mail clients that I would consider using, and
> I believe OE can be configured not to work that way. If it
> can't, DUMP IT.

This has nothing to do with attachments. I do not open attachments, in
fact, there may not be an attachment there at all. I mean by my message
that this happens when I click on the subject line of the message whether
there is an attachment thee oe not.
>
> There are other things that can happen when you view a
> message, whether by opening it or by previewing it. They
> have to do with HTML and scripts, and I mentioned them in
> a previous post. Configure OE to eliminate the problem.
>
How do I configure OE to eliminae the problem?

(Snip)

> I'm not sure why you would want to turn the Preview Pane
> back on?!?!? Leave it off, in my opinion permanently.
> Just read the messages.

When I've deleted all suspicious messages, I turn the Preview pane back on
so that I can see the messages without having to double-click on each one
individually to open it. If I leave it off, I'll never see the messages
without taking time to double-click on each one to open them separately.
>
> By the way, list admins on RootsWeb are reporting many
> cases of the KLEZ virus sending messages with the "From"
> line being a RootsWeb mailing list (or other list, for
> example Yahoo). You may very well get an infected
> message that looks for all the world like it came from
> TMG-L. (If you do, it never went through the list ...
> but if you don't know how to read e-mail headers you
> can't tell.)

Well, I can't read E-mail headers in OE without going to
Properties>Details>Message Source. What you say suggests that I need to
screen RootsWeb messages too. Now that will be a big job. If I see Darrell
A. Martin, then can I assume that message is safe?

Theresa


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