-=> Quoting Kurt Wismer to Julian Yap <=-
JD> getting a virus reading a message is IMPOSSIBLE
JY> I wouldn't say that. You can imbed a virus into a Windows Write file
JY> and say to the user to double click on the icon. Not very hard to do.
KW> perhaps, but something more than just "reading" has to occur in this
KW> circumstance... the computer has to extract the virus, and execute
KW> it...
How about the AUTOOPEN and various other auto-exec macros in Word? Would
you consider that just "reading". In fact, you do not even need an auto-
exec macro in Word to activate a macro virus.
... What a stupid tagline.
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