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On 14/09/17 17:24, John Horne wrote:
So now I know to be even more watchful. Sigh, I still remember the early days of the internet....On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 12:10 +0100, Neil wrote:Yesterday evening I happened to catch part of a TV program that I don't normally watch, Rip-Off Britain. This particular section had the story of a woman who got caught out through an email.I caught part of this as I was leaving for work. The bit that got me was that she ran her business accounts on the PC as well. So why no backup? If her disk genuinely failed beyond use, she would still have lost her accounts.This got me thinking. Up to now I have thought that any email containing malware would not cause any trouble unless you actually clicked on an attachment. Just opening the email was safe. Obviously I was wrong.The problem came to light many years ago when Microsoft would have their client 'automatically' open an email for you (i.e. a preview). This in turn could infect the device (as someone else mentioned just opening the message can cause something to run). I remember others here had to reconfigure MS clients not to show a preview because of the problems.
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