[WikiEN-l] Re: About copyright violations

Thu Jul 31 00:52:22 UTC 2003

On Wednesday 30 July 2003 20:06, Delirium wrote:
> I don't see how an HTML message could possibly contain a virus, unless
> you have a horribly broken mailreader.  It's simply markup, like SGML or
> TeX or whatever (or at least, the mail reader should treat it as simply
> markup, certainly not as executable code).  Tracking software I'll agree
> is an issue, but I don't expect anyone on this list to be including
> image bugs in their emails.

An HTML message can contain a JavaScript program, or an iframe with an 
executable in it. Klez spreads by sending HTML messages with executables in 
iframes, though Klez is filtered out before it reaches my inbox.

phma