Seymour J Metz wrote, re: >> And when some "genius" at Microsoft thought it would be a good idea to
>> be able to embed arbitrary code in a document, it meant that someone could >> do anything they wanted to do to your computer just by sending you a >> document. >To be fair, that issue existed in Script way back when. And in PROFS. And elsewhere. Of course autorun was evil, but it did have some fun moments. At one point in the Outlook 97 days, our network manager sent me a note which, when opened, played VERY LOUDLY a .wav file that screamed "HEY EVERYBODY! I'M LOOKIN' AT PORN OVER HERE!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
