[pmmail-list] HTML and other parts (was: when is the new beta coming?)

[Tim Roberts]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 13:28:25 -0400 (EDT), Carl Gehr wrote:
>
>Why:  The HTML message that was received by a friend over the weekend,
>no attachments, but included an imbedded Java virus that would download
>a file in the background and clobber the system.

That's impossible.  Javascript simply cannot do that.

Embedded VBScript can cause Outlook to propogate e-mail to everyone in your 
address book, but it cannot "clobber your system" unless you open and run an 
executable attachment.

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- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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