Re: [cobalt-users] New email worm / virus.

[Mike Vanecek <nospam99@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 05 May 2000 10:16:51 -0700, Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

:>And what other clients besides those from Microsoft automatically
:>execute VB script without asking permission?  I consider this a
:>Microsoft issue.
:>
:>Jeff

Agent use to, may still do it, but I have had mine set to not automatically
launch an app for so long that I do not know whether that has changed over
the various upgrades. 

If the attachment is saved and one double clicks on it with the appropriated
associations installed, the script executes. But that is little different
that executing a zip.exe program that contains del *.*. My point was that it
is a dangerous virus even to win machines that do not use outlook.