Re: Virus in File?

From: Fabio Cozzolino [MCAD] (cozzolino.fabio_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: 25 Jan 2005 01:27:43 -0800

The virus become active if you execute the infected file. If you open
and save the attachment with the stream objects, you don't have any
problem. The jpg-problem is a IE/Windows bug.

HTH

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