The Outlook 2003 pop-up contains a portion of the message. If you hover the mouse pointer over it, it all gets underlined (becomes a clickable link), plus a yellow balloon pops up that says "Open item".
Sincerely, Andrey Fyodorov, Exchange MVP Systems Engineer Messaging and Collaboration Spherion -----Original Message----- From: Dan Bartley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 1:13 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Rumour - Spammers control "New mail desktop alert" ? It is perception sometimes, particularly if this was related to your boss by someone else. Anyway, it is possible for the new mail alert to stay up longer than normal depending on where mouse focus last was. Additionally, since it is a link to the email, it is normal behavior for the cursor to change. It is possible that it was being described "and the cursor changed to a click me hand icon" as opposed to the pop up had a hand in it and said click me? Best Regards, Dan Bartley -----Original Message----- From: Jim Helfer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 11:54 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Rumour - Spammers control "New mail desktop alert" ? OK, this is a bit of a weird one, but this is from a first hand account from my boss, who is not given to hallucinations or flights of fancy. <g>. The story goes that a piece of Spam was received in the Inbox, and a "New Mail Desktop Alert" (the little transparent email preview that apears above the system tray). Happens all the time, except this time it was different. The preview stayed for at least a minute, and displayed a "hand" icon and a "Click Me" message. Neither of these were evident in the mail message. Is it possible that this feature could be under pogrammatic control by the bad guys? Anyone else seen anything weird like this? We are running OL 2003, connected to a Exchange 5.5 sp4 server. Jim Helfer WTW Architects Pittsburgh PA _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
