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
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-----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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