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rc> It's very much the same argument as the "virus in E-mail" that
rc> will execute when you read the file. Only if the reader, for
rc> some reason, trys to load and execute what it "reads". 
dm> Javascripts, Java applets and Active X are meant to be executed
dm> !!! E-mail usually not. 
Of course they're meant to be executed.  And they _will_ execute: 
but what they can do is limited by what the "Java virtual machine"
itself is capable of doing.  Since the JVM doesn't need to perform
access at the _real_ OS level, it isn't programmed to do so.  So the
applet can't, either.
TTFN. Rick.
Ottawa, ON 22 Apr 17:18 
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