Feline,
From various posts I gather that you are "pretty hot on computers" so I wonder at your comment that you "
didn't open the file and still got clobbered". Although I know it is possible to put HTML into a Word document that may be able to do this sort of damage, do you have any clues as to what happened here?
Could it be from showing the "preview pane" in Outlook? When this little s0d hit the web I switched off the preview pane as a precaution (don't know if this would have made any difference as it appears that nobody loved me enough to send the Bug to me, or any of it's variants!) I guess that Outlook has to run the full code if the "attachement" is actually "embedded" if the preview is on. It's a bl00dy nuicance not having preview, but at least I can check the origin/title etc before double-clicking on the mail to read it!
(Should I dust off that old "promo" box of Lotus Smartsuite
)
The tip about scripting was appreciated - I immediately did it on my machine and passed the word around the office for everyone else to do the same!
Anyone else out there got any ideas? A friend of mine in ZA was passing out "Pretty Park" to all his best mates and swears he did not open it either. Fortunately, we have a lot of common friends and I ICQd them all within an hour of my ZA mate mailing me!
[This message has been edited by ExSimGuy (edited 11 May 2000).]