[pmmail-list] PMMAIL immune to most email viruses?

[Kenneth Porter]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 02:38:41 -0600, J Stewart wrote:

>Most of the email viruses I have heard of affect Outlook users.
>Would I be correct in thinking that people who use PMMail
>don't have as much to fear from those types of viruses?

Sorta. The viruses can't launch themselves in PMMail, but a newbie user
might still double-click on an attachment and infect himself.

The danger in M$ clients is that, unpatched, they will automatically
launch the attachment just by previewing the message and that will
infect the machine.

Ken
mailto:shiva@well.com
http://www.sewingwitch.com/ken/
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