Re: virus's via .mov files?

Charles T. Smith wrote:
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:06:20 +0200, Norbert Hahn wrote:

"Charles T. Smith" <cts.private@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

A mov is not an executable, nor is a jpg. Nor an html, for that matter.
But executables can be invoked from html, and apparently also from jpg.
Do you have some more information on how to start an executable from a jpg
picture?

Norbert

No, I can't. Do you happen to know why Thunderbird has a checkbox under
the "Privacy" configuration window for "Block loading of remote images in
mail messages"?

Unwanted traffic?
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