Re: {HTML Posting} [NSW] Ads on T/G sets

[mk@netstra.com.au (Michael Kurkowski)]

ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au (James Brook) wrote in
<3912B804.4A4920BA@ozemail.com.au>: 

>And of course, HTML messages can have hidden scripts in them.

This is true also. I haven't studied the implications of HTML in Outlook 
Express, or any other Microsoft news or mail reader, but I believe there 
was at least one virus written, that could execute itself without any user 
intervention, simply by the person opening the email. (Was it Bubbleboy?)

The scariest part is, despite my knowledge not to open crap, I nearly 
executed a .pif file that could have compromised my system's security 
recently. The file was named (example only) textfile.txt.pif - Recieved in 
an email. Upon further inspection, it was set up to display the standard 
.txt icon, and of all things rename and generally mess up things in the 
/windows and /windows/system directories (sorry, I'm a unix person, that's 
the only path structure I know :P). Just have to be sooooo careful 
sometimes.

Regards

Michael