I've periodically tried turning on the "no non-local html content" option on my home e-mail program (Entourage) and it bugs even me, knowing as I do the danger of allowing non-local content. I just know there'll be a *huge* battle if that option arrives in Outlook 2003, and I try to get everyone here to use it. My head hurts just thinking about it!
It would be cool, however, if Outlook 2003 had a toolbar button that would allow one to easily disallow non-local content just when opening suspicious messages, instead of just burying under some tab in Tools->Options. In the meantime, in the immortal words of the fabulous klez obscure holiday tracking system, "Have a Humour Lady Day". -Peter -----Original Message----- From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 8:19 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Can this happen with Spam ? Outlook doesn't necessarily allow code to be executed per se, but rendering a jpeg with the URL http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] can be more than sufficient to confirm an e-mail address as being 'live'. Slipstick has a script to convert HTML mail to plain text in Outlook, and Outlook 2003 allows one to prevent the rendering of non-local content in an HTML message I believe. On 3/20/03 9:22, "RBHATIA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > As I try to battle the tons of spam related email my organization receives > everyday, I am amazed at the increasing number of emails targetting our > organization despite the fact that we do have a filtering technology in > place. Which brings me to the question - are we doing something to invite > these emails ? > I came across an article by Brian Livingstone recently about spam and how > certain tactics can invite spammers to your organization. I quote a > statement from his article relating to the results of an experiment they > carried out at some law firm - "They found that 83 percent of the spam being > received contained a coded "tracking" image. When the image was downloaded > to be displayed in the message, it alerted the senders that a message sent > to a specific address had been viewed. This is now the most prevalent > mechanism by which spammers find "live" accounts, in my opinion." > Is this possible in Outlook ? The article said something about with the > Preview pane being turned on in Outlook, this was more likely to happen or > just opening an email with this sort of an image in it could also trigger > the code. How can this happen ? This means Outlook is allowing some code to > get executed that passes information back to the source. Isn't there a > security patch to prevent this from happening ? > RB > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ This message is private or privileged. If you are not the person for whom this message is intended, please delete it and notify me immediately, and please do not copy or send this message to anyone else. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
