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Old 7th May 2000 | 17:19
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ExSimGuy
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Velvet Strokes,

"Dunnit" straight away! Any idea if we lose any important facilities by doing that? Soulds a good way to stop Visual Basic "nasties", but is it going to stop my Excel macros working?

(I also instructed our "IT lad" to do the same for the rest of the company)

BlackAdder,

I always thought you had to run the attachments to get "hit" (although I know it could be possible to add some unpleasant HTML code to an email which would "hit" users with HTML enabled, but can't think how else you can getzapped just by reading the TEXT of an email - please enlighten!

Just in case, I turned off the "preview" on my Outlook Express last week (thanks to warnings on PRuNe beating the news services to it!)

I just hope that someone does not work out a way to send viruses via UBB code (shouldn't have said that!!!!)