Martin and others,
I believe it is possible to catch a virus by just opening an email.
Microsoft allows for this through the use of ActiveX. It is very deadly.
The virus we are discussing now apparently only affects Outlook users. If
we all used Linux we wouldn't have this problem. :) Yet.
Elizabeth
Elizabeth A. Wardle
Rhetoric & Professional Communication Program
Department of English
Iowa State University of Science and Technology
ewardle@iastate.edu
www.public.iastate.edu/~ewardle/
"Poets, dreamers, and scholars occupied in philosophy are easy to cheat.
For even though they divinely discourse upon the unusual, they are often
ignorant of the usual matters of life... If you ascribe to this group, you
need to develop a touch of the ordinary and commercial, just enough to keep
from being cheated, or even from being laughed at...Of what use is
knowledge unless it be made to function?"
~Baltasar Gracian, 1601-1658
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