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Article #22732Re: Has anyone received the new "I LOVE YOU" Virus email yet ?
From: John Chapple
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 00:00
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Just going back a bit (not following on directly from the previous post) It's (probably) worth noting that Outlook (Office 97) & Outlook Express seem to have different actions on recieving mail. 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. However, this might matter if the file contents were HTML -- John Chapple
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