Virus Scripts opening from e-mails

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From: IS Administrator (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 05:36:46 -0800

A user here received an e-mail here yesterday in spanish
and even though they cannot read spanish felt it was
necessary to open. It had a few attachments which she
avoided, they looked like pictures and the body of the e-
mail was blank except for at the top of the message a few
phrases in spanish were flashing. What is the likely hood
that it is some sort of virus that executed a script on
her system? How common are e-mails that execute these
scripts and how dangersous can they be. Also most
importantly how can we stop these scripts from executing
when an e-mail is opened?

Thanks

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