From what I saw through a list I was on (not from personal experience, thank $DIETY) there are viruses that will activate when the message is previewed. the KAK worm does such, because of the script attached to it. If you have to use a windoze based email, try Eudora for cryin out loud! The only real way to prevent the infection is to set security higher on the mailer. I had several people send me the KAK worm (not on purpose) and when it showed up in OE with the virus, I got a screen that said the Active X involved in that message was possibly dangerous and I was not to read the message. Same message opened in Eudora showed the script for the virus. Weird.
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From what I saw through a list I was on (not from personal experience, thank $DIETY) there are viruses that will activate when the message is previewed. the KAK worm does such, because of the script attached to it. If you have to use a windoze based email, try Eudora for cryin out loud! The only real way to prevent the infection is to set security higher on the mailer. I had several people send me the KAK worm (not on purpose) and when it showed up in OE with the virus, I got a screen that said the Active X involved in that message was possibly dangerous and I was not to read the message. Same message opened in Eudora showed the script for the virus. Weird.