"Bother!", said Kurt Wismer, boring Steve Bennett with the subject Hoax virus 
warnings,
 KW> why? why reinvent the wheel?... besides, email is not a multi-media
 KW> environment AND how do you write viruses with sound?
Perhaps you missed my point...I was going through a diatribe of the
evolution of a program that starts just knowing how to translate embedded
font changes, then embedded sounds/music, finally embedded programs.
'twasn't terribly serious.
 KW> there are some mail readers where something like this has already
 KW> happened... where running an attached file only requires a single
 KW> click of the mouse... it's these sorts of increasingly insecure
 KW> environments that make on access scanners (vxd's) necessary...
I know...hotmail.com has its own on-line reader which allows HTML tags to
be translated, and with one click you can download a virus...still, it _is_
a click.
Steve
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