Re: [Micronet] Unusual virus in email?

From: Karl R. Grose <karlgrose_at_berkeley.edu>
Date: Tue Aug 10 2004 - 12:54:22 PDT

On Tuesday 10 August 2004 12:45, Michael Rimar wrote:

> virus/worms are attachments which are (?) separate files. Are there
> cases of malicious code simply inserted into the text/body of the
> message?

Yes, which is why not rendering HTML-formatted e-mail messages is a good
idea.

--Karl

Karl Grose
IST-WSS

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