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Re: Microsoft to Blame for 'Love Bug'?
From: Erik Moeller <moeller () OKAY NET>
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 02:04:20 +0200
On 12 May 2000, at 19:46, Barry H Gill wrote:
Outlook, Outlook 98 and Outlook 2000 have a feature called the Preview Pane. Any embedded scripts, .vbs, .hta etc will BY DEFAULT be run automatically when a message is previewed.
Is there a (semi-)official confirmation for this? I have checked several antivirus sites, but they all said that the user had to execute the script by double-clicking it. This is also what I read in most news reports. Regards, Erik Moeller -- Scientific Reviewer, Freelancer, Humanist -- Berlin/Germany Phone: +49-30-45491008 - Web: http://www.humanist.de/erik WWW site on the origins of violence: http://www.violence.de ISN is sponsored by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".
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- Microsoft to Blame for 'Love Bug'? William Knowles (May 12)
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- Re: Microsoft to Blame for 'Love Bug'? William Knowles (May 12)
- Re: Microsoft to Blame for 'Love Bug'? Felix von Leitner (May 12)
- Re: Microsoft to Blame for 'Love Bug'? Aj Effin ReznoR (May 12)
- Re: Microsoft to Blame for 'Love Bug'? The Dodger (May 12)
- Re: Microsoft to Blame for 'Love Bug'? Barry H Gill (May 12)
- Re: Microsoft to Blame for 'Love Bug'? Bronc Buster (May 12)
- Re: Microsoft to Blame for 'Love Bug'? Erik Moeller (May 12)
- Re: Microsoft to Blame for 'Love Bug'? Barry H Gill (May 12)
- Re: Microsoft to Blame for 'Love Bug'? Chico (May 12)