Re: Microsoft to Blame for 'Love Bug'?

[Chico <chico () SUMMITPRO COM>]

it won't run unless u set up a macro to run it..

preview pane will not execute it.. i use preview pane and i sent a test to
myself with a .vbs file attached that just pop'd up a  msgbox window and i
actually had to double click it to get it to execute... :)

kinda semi-official..hehe :)

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Subject: Re: [ISN] Microsoft to Blame for 'Love Bug'?


On 12 May 2000, at 19:46, Barry H Gill wrote:

> Outlook, Outlook 98 and Outlook 2000 have a feature called the Preview
Pane.
> Any embedded scripts, .vbs, .hta etc will BY DEFAULT be run automatically
> when a message is previewed.

Is there a (semi-)official confirmation for this? I have checked
several antivirus sites, but they all said that the user had to
execute the script by double-clicking it. This is also what I read in
most news reports.

Regards,
Erik Moeller
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