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sde · 05-30-2002, 12:59 AM

well, i got a virus and had to reinstall win2k.

be carefull when using outlook express. even if you don't click on a file, it automatically highlights the file if it is the only one in your box. if that email is a virus and someone set it to automatically open.. you are screwed! ( if you aren't running anti-virus stuff like i wasn't)

it automatically opened my windows sound player and executed the .src file that was embedded in it.

within the next day i was getting blue screens and other odd things happening. i need to find a new windows mail client.

05-30-2002, 12:59 AM	#1 (permalink)
sde Moderator Join Date: May 2002 Location: us.ca Posts: 4,529	reformatted win2k due to virus. well, i got a virus and had to reinstall win2k. be carefull when using outlook express. even if you don't click on a file, it automatically highlights the file if it is the only one in your box. if that email is a virus and someone set it to automatically open.. you are screwed! ( if you aren't running anti-virus stuff like i wasn't) it automatically opened my windows sound player and executed the .src file that was embedded in it. within the next day i was getting blue screens and other odd things happening. i need to find a new windows mail client.