Before you all go absolutely insane on me..

From: Editor - P.O.V. Image Service (editor@p-o-v-image.com)
Date: 05/04/00-11:31:30 AM Z

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The file I sent was simply a toy/game file renamed to "format.exe"...

In this case, it was completely innocuous...

But it could easily have been something else...

That's why attachments should be verboten..

Hopefully no-one would have run it with its current name...

Keith Krebs

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