Heenan, Lambert
Lambert.Heenan at chartisinsurance.com
Fri Dec 11 08:49:57 CST 2009
AFIK, Outlook has had various security patches in place for year that prevent it from running any scripts in HTML formatted messages and to hide unhealthy attachments. See this old article for instance... http://windowsitpro.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=9132 In any case it's pretty lame to say "don't open a message, you might get a virus infection." This might be true of you have no or out of date anti-virus software but only a very foolish Windows user would do that. No? Lambert -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 9:36 AM To: DBA Tech List Subject: [dba-Tech] Outlook question In a recent blog, I showed the readers how to disable the automatic "read" setting -- you know how Outlook bolds messages until they're "read?" So, there's a simple setting that still allows you to view the message in the Reader Pane, but doesn't unbold the message header. Well, I've got a couple of readers who are claiming that this "automatically opens" the message and allows viruses in. They might be right, but I admit I'm confused. Anyone know what they're talking about? http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/msoffice/?p=2354&tag=leftCol;post-2354 Susan H. _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com