On Sep 7, 4:35 pm, tiggertiffin87 <[email protected]> wrote: > The program itself is NOT how you get virus' etc on your > computer...downloading email is NOT how you get virus' either. The > way you get them is by downloading bad attachments (and this can > happen in web email as well) or by clicking links within the email > that go to a bad site. Also, your post to keysralph was not helpful > at all. Also, you can set Thunderbird to only get headers, NOT to > download the entire email. Before you complain about something, get > all you're facts straight.
Yes and no. The problem with Outlook is when it is configured to automatically run attachments. This becomes an infection vector, and there are enough infected machines spewing out spam that any vulnerable machine *will* get infected. Now, the quick solution is to disable Outlook's behavior of opening/ running attachments. I don't know what MS' current default setting is, I think they did disable it at some point. But malicious attacks will attempt to change that setting (such as a malicious website opened in MSIE could run an activex script to change it back). Generally, I will encourage people to switch to TB, just to remove that attack vector. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
