I receive JAVA applets in Outlook Express, with the lake effects and such
just like you see in web pages.

Linda Aldridge

An email program has the capability to display HTML
but not to execute JAVA.  So the mail program would
not be able infect the PC.

HOWEVER...
if the human reader clicks a link within an email
message and that opens his/her web browser, then
that is a different story.

Jim Meagher

-----Original Message-----
From: Donald Rex Gaither <[log in to unmask]>
>Hi,
>     I've heard of this type of virus, except what I heard is that people
>are using email readers ability to web pages to include Java code in an
>email which creates the "virus" on the computer.  I don't think this is a
>concern for the original questioner since it sounded to me like they had
a
>pure text reader.  Now those of us using Netscape, Outlook, Outlook
>Express, etc.  might be a different story.
>

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