--- author: Eric Wagoner date: '1999-11-10T01:39:06' draft: false title: 'From the BBC: A dangerous' --- From the BBC: [_A dangerous new type of e-mail virus emerged on Tuesday](http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_514000/514145.stm) which reveals the potential to wreak havoc on computers by simply looking at an e-mail. It breaks one of the long-standing rules that you have to open an e-mail attachment to become infected._ It's easily stopped, but most users' default settings in Microsoft's Internet Explorer will let this slip right on through. Yowsers!