Is it also your contention that NOBODY else releases e-mail clients with
this potential? While Mictosoft's e-mail client may be the only one to
properly run an ActiveX attachment in HTML mail, ALL of them will run
JavaScript code. Then there's the Melissa worm, which was NOT an ActiveX
piece, which also hit people by convincing them to open an attachment. ALL
e-mail clients have potential vulnerabilities, not just Microsoft's. About
the ONLY ones that I have seen that have a better than average "guarantee"
of you not being hit by something are the command-line mail programs Elm and
Pine for Unix.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 5:37 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] ODBC Issue
> If you go to Tools/Options/Send and uncheck the box for Send
> replies in the format they were sent and make sure that plain
> text is checked below that you should have no problems.
Yes, but only if you are running a version of Outlook that has that option.
Mine doesn't (Outlook 98). Hopefully, I will soon be using IMail web
messaging exclusively.
> As for this worm, MS released a patch for this last summer.
My comment was more aimed towards the fact that Microsoft releases some
features that are much less secure than they should be. HTML E-mail is one
thing (hokey in my opinion, but I'll admit it's "cute"), but who really
needs to have Active-X applets running in an E-mail??? This is E-mail, not
the WWW.
-Scott
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