🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 10 May 2000 11:51:39 +0100, David Lawson
<david@artful.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>
>>In Outlook you can delete the email without opening it.
>>In Outlook Express it appears that you can delete the email without
>>opening it (right click on the selected file: delete, (open is there
>>too!)), but actually almost as soon as you select it, the icon changes
>>to read & the contents of the email (of course) appear in the third
>>small window (preview pane). Therefore it appears that the act of simply
>>selecting it, opens it.
>>The answer seems to be to change view|layout|unclick preview pane in
>>outlook express
>>
>>Given that the current 'virus' requires opening the email *&* then
>>executing the enclosed file in any case, it doesn't matter whether the
>>email itself is opened before it is deleted.
>
> I don't use either of the Outlooks, so please forgive my ignorance, but
>could this be the basis of the shock-horror story in the Observer. It
>ranted on about a 'supervirus' which threatens life as we know it
>because it activates just by clicking 'Get Mail'? In other words, you
>don't have to open a message: just getting it is enough.
>
> The article looked a bit far-fetched to me. The information appeared to
>come from Network Associates discovering a 'watershed' in virus coding
>after receiving a series of mails titled 'Bubbleboy is back'. This had
>no destructive payload, according to the article, so it did little
>damage. But 'few took much notice of the quantum leap that it
>represented'.
>
> The whole piece is frantic, using language such as 'you could have
>turned your �2,000 machine into a pile of useless plastic'.

Well you know the saying "Never let the facts get in the way of a good
story".

I nearly pissed myself when Channel4 News said that the writer of
ILOVEYOU must be an "evil genius". I guess police are now looking for
a man that lives in a hollowed out volcano that has a mono-rail
running round inside it.

Mark