TC> Here we go again.... you mention in your post "New (which it's not) Word
TC> macro virus". The *macro* IS a virus and has little to do with E-Mail. A
TC> macro can me send via E-Mail (any E-Mail application will do this) but
TC> an "E-mail virus" does not exits. If I send an E-Mail to someone using
TC> MS Mail they cannot become infected by purely reading that E-Mail. Rod's
TC> right... talking about "E-Mail viruses" only serves to spread the rumors
TC> that they exist (they do not).
"E-Mail viruses".. my comment. Number one. Anyone who says,  "NEVER", has 
bothe a negative attitude, and lacks a creative mind, AND is often ill 
informed. Number two. I suspect that perhaps you like many people may have 
OS
or OS/2 stcuk into your mind. Their are other operating systems which work in 
much different ways and which are very vulnerable to exploit. Seconedly, when 
you say  "e-mail".. What the hell does that even mean?   Heres a brillians 
thought. What if I'm a programmer and I create a e-mail program which is 
widely distributed worldwide which has the capabaility to run programs or 
scripts directly from e-mail?  So that right their makes it possible, its 
ust
a matter of what e-mail program your talking about (this doesnt really apply 
to  "BBS Software because I dont think any BBS software lets you execute 
iles
from e-mail that would be ludicrous, especially under DOS or OS/2).
Just one last obvious though,... and what if one wanted to activate a file, 
NOT through an "attached file", but rather by directly reading e-mail, 
lets say I create an e-mail program that can directly read C code from an
e-mail message, and then can automatically compile that "C" program with the 
built in C compiler thats available on the Operating System ( you know.. kind 
of how C compilers are available to every user on most UNIX systems for the 
users to compile stuff on-line). The e-mail program could begine the 
compilation when it encounters a special symbol in the e-mail program (part 
f
a scripting language also built into the mail program), then when its 
inished
compiling, it returns to e-mail where it encounters the last of the script 
which executes the newly compiled program.
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