Hello Nick,
On Tue, 9 May 2000 at 18:29:13 [GMT -0700], you wrote:
NA> http://listserv.aol.com/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0005B&L=tourbus&P=R2&m=1
>>Quoting:
>> - Built-in HTML and image viewers. (No need to wait until a browser
>> or external image viewer gets loaded.)
NA> What is the basic difference between what is advertised here, and what MS
NA> offers through Outlook or Outlook Express. Surely we don't share the same
NA> vulnerability as those MS products do, yet we can still view HTML code?
NA> What's the catch? What vulnerabilities does TB! have?
Firstly, TB will not display images that are HREF'd to a web site.
i.e. if the pic isn't sent *as part of* the HTML message, it will not
be displayed, and TB will not go to a web site and download the pic.
Secondly, TB will not run Visual Basic Script (VBS) embedded in HTML,
nor will it run Javascript embedded in HTML.
TB will display straight HTML (minus the HREF'd images to a web site),
and none of that other junk that people put in web pages. This makes
is invulnerable to those types of worms and attacks.
Leif Gregory
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