Re: UKNM: this may be a false alarm, but....

[Casper Moller]

Allie Symonds wrote:


> Hi Dom,

>

> Interesting point, (you are very right about the alert being the best method

> of sending something quickly... a case in point)

>

> Techie, an e-mail cannot send a virus per se. E-mail clients are all

> different, and none (as far as I know) _open_ attachments automatically.


Some e-mail clients can be set to open attachments directly, thereby making

these e-mail viruses extremely dangerous.


> So, opening and reading the e-mail has no effect, running an executable on

> the the other hand, could prove fatal.

>

> I'm just checking Microsoft site now to check if they really did say what

> this 'alert/virus' says. I'll let you know if anything suspicious occurs....

>

> Allie Symonds

> Marketing Manager

> Sequence Collective Ltd

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