Re: Eudora (off topic?) - a bit wary of attachments.

["Michael Edwards" mje@xxxxxxxx]

                         Michael Edwards.

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[Rene von Rentzell, quoting myself:]

>>   Good question; I was considering asking that myself.
>>   In the present climate of one virus scare after another..., I'm hardly
>>likely to even consider opening an attachment, especially a .bin one, without
>>being *very* sure of what it is.

>But why not peek in it with XYwrite?
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   I don't have XY-Write yet. (If that seems surprising in view of my being
on this list, I did say before that I was interested in buying it (and I still
am), but don't have it yet.) And I thought .bin files were executable, so how
would looking at it in a word-processor help?

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>Those current computer scares only concern people who click on messages with
"Word" and then find out that Word start running some macros.
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   What about the "KAK" and "I Love You" worms? As far as I could tell from
my reading about them, Word had nothing whatever to do with them, and they could
operate simply by opening an attachment.

             Regards,
             Michael Edwards.