But I believe that just turns it off. It doesn't disable it (I could be wrong, but that's how I believe it to be). A user could just turn it back on.
BTW - That's called 'web beaconing' (when images are use for tracking). It's a very effective method for determining if email addresses are valid, and has been used by a LOT of spammers. We've even seen HTML emails that don't have any visible images use this by setting the width & height to 0 so the image doesn't appear, but it still gets accessed. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Busby, Jacob Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 5:34 AM To: 'Exchange Discussions' Subject: RE: Can this happen with Spam ? Outlook has a /nopreview switch which alows you to turn off the preview pane for your users. When you deploy Outlook you could deploy it with this switch. I'd love to see a lawsuit raised against spammers. Something along the lines of emotional damages for receiving pornographic e-mail. Hit them in the wallet - it's the only language they understand! > > 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 ? _________________________________________________________________ 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]
