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Tim Williams wrote:
"DoN. Nichols" wrote in message
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So -- if you have looked at the preceding message with a
Windows system and OE, please run a virus scan on your system.

Don't forget people, that OE doesn't run attachments automatically (except
images, which are convieniently embedded in-line, and aren't executables
anyway so don't count) and most certainly is NOT smart enough to know what a
ZIP file is, let alone how to open it. Okay!?

But the "iframe" HTML tag can pass it off to another program.
An early example of this trick was (supposed) audio files (.wav), which
it did not explicitly pass to a program to play files. It instead just
attempted to *run* the file, depending on the system to recognize the
type and feed it to the appropriate program to play it. The file, in
reality, had an filename something like

name-of-song.wav.exe

or

name-of-song.wav.scr

which *are* executables, so when it tried to run it to play it, it
really *ran* it.

Enjoy,
DoN.
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