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Date: Thu Dec 29 18:20:38 2005
From: michael.holstein at csuohio.edu (Michael Holstein)
Subject: test this

> Mix in a generous helping of 'type sniffing' by MS so that you can name 
> WMF files .gif or .jpg or some other random suffix and you have one hell 
> of a problem that can only really be completely fixed by MS releasing a 
> patch to kill execution of embedded executable code in WMF files.

Has anyone tested the renamed .wmf -> .jpg trick and embedding the image 
in a HTML email (using Outlook, et.al) ?

That'd make it even nastier.

/mike.