On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:46:12 GMT, Tim Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted :
>Viruses can mail out change of address messages to everyone in the >compromised machine's address book today. > >Of course, viruses don't bother doing that - since it's stupid and >pointless. A virus is interested in the address book mainly if there as a way it can send itself to other machines, get at their address book in a fission explosion and spread without human intervention. The key that makes that possible is Microsoft's features for running self-executing code in emails. That is the problem. It has nothing to do with formatting or pictures. -- Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green. http://mindprod.com Again taking new Java programming contracts. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
