> Is my understanding on that > matter right or wrong? Wrong; those viruses that exploit Outlook/IE bugs to execute themselves automatically are actually exploiting flaws in IE's HTML renderer component. The preview pane and message window in Outlook Express (and similar features in Outlook, and sundry other bits and pieces -- Add/Remove Programs in Windows 2000 and up, for instance) use this renderer component to display HTML; if one were to rename the .DLL containing the code a lot of things would probably break straight away. Certainly one would not be able to read any e-mail at all in Outlook.
That said, there is a way to make use of Mozilla's renderer (the Gecko engine) in place of IE's; this involves taking a hex editor to any apps that use IE and changing the GUID for IE's renderer to that of Mozilla's. There's a page on the web somewhere, but I can't put my hands on the URL at the moment. Regards, Ben A L Jemmett. (http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/) To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
