[Coco] TRS-80 Color Computer Appliance and LightController manual

[Greg Law]

Wikipedia has a fairly decent article on TNEF (winmain.dat). Suffice it to 
say, it's primarily a Microsoft attachment used by Outlook and Exchange but 
it can be a security risk since it may contain your localhost username and 
path information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Neutral_Encapsulation_Format

This link contains instructions to remove the attachment:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958012

-----Original Message----- 
From: Bill
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 8:51 AM
To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'
Subject: Re: [Coco] TRS-80 Color Computer Appliance and LightController 
manual

I don't know what it is nor where it came from. I recently re-installed a
clean XP SP3 on this machine, and after I installed Office, they started
appearing.

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Gene Heskett
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 8:41 AM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] TRS-80 Color Computer Appliance and Light Controller
manual

On Wednesday 24 July 2013 08:29:01 Bill did opine:

Bill, what is this winmail.dat that is attached to all your msgs lately?
Its far bigger that the message, which in this case is 114 bytes, but this
thing is 10 kilobytes of base64 encoded gobbledygook, big enough to be a
virus or something?  Kmail says its a TNEF message, never heard of such a
critter.


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