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Old 20th September 2003 | 03:08
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Grainger
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Yeah, had loads of these today Worm.Automat.AHB

Once again I have to wonder - why has Microsoft written an email client that can be taken over in this way ? How many of us want, need or use the scripting capabilities of Outlook to send messages to people in the recipient's address book ? Is there any legitimate non-virusy/wormy reason for wanting to do this ?

And why not just allow people to switch it off so you just have a program that sends and receives emails ? Or would that be far too sensible ?
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