ExSimGuy
Didn't open it in the sense of opening the e-mail and double clicking on the attachment.
Noted name of attachment, then from Windows Explorer, copied it to diskette (single click from Windows Explorer which should ONLY select a file and not execute it);
Opened Notepad and looked at script (which again, should not execute a file). On quick glance, didn't like what I saw.
Sometime later, went back to Windows Explorer and selected original file and deleted it - but by that stage it appears that it had executed and screwed up all my jpeg files.
From which I deduce that simply "Selecting" the file in Windows Explorer was enough to execute it.
And I kind of confirm that because later on, after I had realised I had been hit and was trying to clear up the damage (and had also renamed the host scripting wscript.exe programme), I selected an infected file (single click not double click) and it promptly tried to run itself all over again (but couldn't because I had renamed the executable).
So, as far as I'm concerned, I took reasonable precautions, but the little booger still got me. Files should not execute when simply selected, but it seesm that .vbs scripts do (another little Microsoft "undocumented feature"?)
Don't know about the preview pane in Outlook - I use Eudora which doesn't have a preview pane.
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Feline
(I Sit, I Watch, I Smile)
[This message has been edited by Feline (edited 11 May 2000).]