Dan Howard wrote: > In case you missed it, the attachment to the original message is a > virus, as reported in the Washington post and elsewhere > (http://www.washtech.com/news/netarch/14897-1.html). > > > It attacks OE and the Windows Address Book -- does that mean Mozilla is > immune? I'm not planning to try it to find out. >
Well, what do you mean by "immune"? Moz won't automatically execute it and Moz won't automatically mail it out to all in your Moz address book, but if you click on it and it executes, whatever else it does would work. > But on a positive note, I noticed that in the attachments window of > mail/news, the attached file, which is disguised with a .com suffix, is > correctly displayed with a .exe icon. Huh? "disguised"? .com is every bit as executable under Windows as .exe.
