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Old 26th March 2004 | 10:27
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BOAC
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aman - as I understand it, anyone can attach an file containing a virus to an email and change its type to txt?

I am not confident that the hackers have not found a way to activate a virus this way. They can do it with pifs and gifs and the like - or are we COMPLETELY safe?
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