Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] virus warning
From: John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:13:53 -0600

The beauty of this particular security hole in the Mail/Windoze interface is
that all you have to do is receive the mail for all heck to break loose. If
you are running Windoze, get the upgrade.

John Collier

> From: Pascal <cyberdog@attglobal.net>
>
> Anyway, on a more general note: whichever email program one is using on
> whatever platform, one should always de-activate the option to
> automatically open mail attachments. Once that is done, all email
> programs should be save to work with. Only open attachments (manually of
> course) if you know where they come from and only if you can trust the
> source.
>