"Tom Ring" wrote in message
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Richard Clark wrote:

On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 01:17:33 GMT, "John Smith"
wrote:

In XP, I clicked Tools/Options then selected the Security tab. Unchecked
the "Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened..."


Hi John,

You are now standing at the edge of the abyss.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

As someone with well over 10000 customers, I can assure you that Richard
is correct.

There was also announced today, an exploit that doesn't even need you to
click on it if you run, gasp!, Microsoft clients.

Here is the link to the story-

http://software.silicon.com/security...9125549,00.htm

and here is a link to the slashdot discussion of it -

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?si...id=201&tid=218

I also have to admit that the exploit needs a dummy on the receiving end
to complete the circuit by having poor judgement/settings. They may be
able to write it to be better yet, though, and I'm hoping against hope,
not.

tom
K0TAR

Thanks, Richard and Tom, for your concern. I forgot to say that I
immediately turned that feature back on.

I also use Poptray to examine any mail before actually downloading with OE.
It's amazing how easy it is to spot unwanted emails.

73,
John