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This is getting tiresome and I have demonstrated my point repeatedly that
HTML mail can be a security risk. Enough.
----- Original Message -----
From: "A.J. Maas" <anthmaas@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: Brown and Co. (Longish explanation)
> I am afraid that you have things mixed up heavely here.
>
> Putting a clickable link into a HTML page or mail is not a virus(or one of
> their offspring/spinn offs).
> Whatever the link involves in/to, is a user's OWN decission to find out and
> also AT THAT TIME users own responsability (to click it or not).
>
> The other malfunctioning software "leaks"(=bugs) you mention are of
> historical "events" levels. They have been patch fixed for IEv5.00 and prior
> versions, well before last year end and this accounts also fully for and in
> the IEv5.01 and as such
> is WAY OFF TOPIC + OUTDATED hoaxing news.
>
> HTML emails or webpages, singly by itselve, are as harmless/full as floppy
> disks, CD-Roms or ZipDisks are, eg wether they are stuffed with or
> without programs that you can get anywhere. Thus do not continue to
> spread hoaxes around.
>
> Once you start playing or running a program that is contained on/with it,
> you can always be at risk. But that daybreaking "news" stems back for
> as long as computers
> have been around, and is also known to any users, eg since that the first
> thing in computing that any user MUST know prior to be able to compute
> with his machine
> in the first place,
> is that you will have to run(eg click) a program.
> And clicking/running anything that is unknown to any user for that matter
> can be of hassardous nature. So no "daybreaking" news her either.
>
> Regards,
> Ton Maas
> ms-irb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Dismiss the ".nospam" bit (including the dot) when replying.
> Homepage http://home.planet.nl/~anthmaas
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