>>In Outlook and Outlook express, there is an icon that is displayed if the email contains VBS. This icon looks like a little tornado. If you see this icon, do NOT click on it, as that will run it. I've followed this rule for some time and even received infected emails, but never been bitten by them.
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>Craig,
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>Looks more like a scroll of paper to me.< s > Actually, there are four file extensions to be concerned with: vbs, vbe, js, and jse. The first two are VBScript files (with vbe being encoded). The latter two are JScript files (again the jse is encoded).
>
>The reason that it (the various WSH viruses) goes after SCT files is that this is the extension that's associated with Windows Script Components as well as VFP forms.


Here is an interesting extract from the latest issue of WOW#2.09
(Woody's Office Watch)

  1. OUTLOOK EMAIL SECURITY UPDATE - THE OTHER SHOE DROPS
  Last month in Woody's Office for Mere Mortals #2.07
  (http://www.woodyswatch.com/wowmm/archtemplate.asp?v2-n07
  ), I explained how the "Email Security Update" in Outlook
  2000 Service Pack 2 and Outlook 2002 has two controversial
  parts. One part deals with how Outlook handles files
  attached to email messages; the other deals with how
  Outlook interacts with other programs.

  In that issue, I told you about file attachment blocking in
  Outlook's Email Security Update, and its implications for
  both Outlook 2000 and Outlook 2002. Basically, the Email
  Security Update takes it upon itself to keep you from
  getting at certain files that are sent to you attached to
  email messages. There are nuances and tricks - the most
  significant of which is Ken Slovak's very cool Attachment
  Options utility, which is available on Sue Mosher's
  masterful Outlook Web site, Slipstick, at
  http://www.slipstick.com/files/attopt.zip . Alas, the
  Attachment Options utility only works on Office XP. It
  doesn't do a thing to Outlook 2000 SP-2.

  In this issue I'm going to talk about how the Email
  Security Update blocks access to your address book. It's
  the other half of the draconian security overhaul foisted
  on us Office victims in Office 2000 SP-2, and carried over
  - lock, stock and groaning barrel - to Office XP.

  If you're using Outlook 97, 98, the original Office 2000,
  or 2000 Service Release 1 or 1a, and have no intention of
  upgrading, you don't need to worry about any of this. (At
  least, you don't need to worry unless you manually apply
  the Email Security Update to Office 2000. I sure hope
  nobody has talked you into doing that. You need the Email
  Security Update as much as you need another hole in your
  head.)

  If you're thinking of installing Office XP (due to be
  available on May 31) or Office 2000 Service Pack 2 - or if
  your company might be converting your current Office 2000
  setup to Service Pack 2 - you need to understand this
  stuff. Otherwise, you're in for some rude awakenings.