An HTML file can pass on a 'virus' (technically, not a virus) if it
contained malicious code (active X or other controls), and the user
activates said code. This is just one reason (other than bandwidth of
course) why text emails are so much more user friendly than HTML messages,
especially on a list like this, which has worldwide subscribers and a fairly
loose admissions policy.
Robert
Dr Robert Treharne Jones
GP and Trainer, Walnut Lodge, Torquay
Medical Consultant, Torex Health [log in to unmask]
-----Original Message-----
From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, May 04, 2000 08:11
Subject: VIRUSES
>On 5/4/00, [log in to unmask] writes:
>
><< More info on KAK Worm removal..........copied and pasted from
>alt.comp.virus
>.............
>Note: Kak spreads via Email. Since you were infected, you'll have been
>sending infected messages >>
>
>***Everything that I have read states that a virus cannot be spread through
>the body of ordinary email, but only through any attachments that you may
>open, so that if you do not open attachments you cannot be infected by
>viruses. Is this article now saying that all the computer magazines and
virus
>websites are wrong?
>
>Dr Mel C Siff
>Denver, USA
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