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Viewing email in "Preview" pane, does this mean the email has been "opened"?

In other word, if the message has virus, will it infect the computer by viewing it in Preview pane?

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Not all viri behave this way, but the simple answer it yes it CAN
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?99119.iibubble.htm
Hi robinluo,

It depends on the Option settings, if it is set to "Mark unread after 5 seconds", then it will not be marked Unread untill the 5 seconds are gone,
otherwise, like my setting, Once you move to the second message, the first one is marked Unread.

Hope this helps

jaffer
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