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>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'.

-- 
David Lawson - London