Le lun 30/09/2002 � 18:49, dizasta a �crit : > ok thanks. why is it a security flaw btw? > > dan > > -----outshined.net------------------------------------ > free email with 50mb (hotmail gives you 2mb, yahoo 4mb) > sign up now @ http://www.outshined.net
when you read an e-mail (spam) that fetches images out of a remote server, it tells the sender "hey, i'm here, that's a human's address,you can continue sending your junk to me!". That's the lesser evil. Much worse is when , with a carefully crafted URL , and most notably when you use MS Explorer, a remote server can inject malicious code which will be executed by your computer. That shouldn't happen, we all know that. The fact is, it does. That's why ALL mail reader programs shoud allow the user to disable downloading of remote content. Most don't and thats a shame. David
