Re: ADMINISTRIVIA: viruses, worms, and so on

[Jean-Marc Desperrier <jmdesp@xxxxxxx>]

Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:

> It turns out that with this particular worm you did not need to 
> click on anything to get infected. It exploits a hole in windows.
>
> You are ok if your patches were up to date.
>  
How happens I'm not worried at all by this kind of warning despite 
having to use Microsoft Windows ? :-)

Of course, one must be wary too of the "alternatives" mail readers that 
in fact embed IE to display HTML messages.
Or at least learn how to disable that mechanism.