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

[ajwright@ozemail.com.au (Ashley Wright)]

On Fri, 05 May 2000 14:58:48 GMT, mk@netstra.com.au (Michael
Kurkowski) wrote:

>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?)
>

  I got an email just today that when opened, it poped up an icon in
the tray near the clock saying click here for sports illustrated
swimsuit video. The worst thing is I think the email that caused it
came from my ISP. So yes some emails can run scrips without doing
anything.
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 Ashley Wright, Canberra, Australia                                                         
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