[dba-Tech] Outlook question

Some people who consider themselves "techies" never let go of old procedures
and can't be convinced that they should. A very arrogant fellow I know (on
university staff) I know still reformats and reinstalls windows every year
because that was considered by some to be a good practice back in Windows 95
days. I doubt he will ever stop doing this.

I optimize and rejuvenate PCs all the time and in ten years have probably
had to reformat and reinstall a dozen times. That's generally caused by a
bad infection that someone else tried and failed to remediate, not because
windows needs it. He doesn't care because some "expert" recommended that he
do what he does and I'm certainly not as much of an expert because I don't
have my PhD.


-----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 9:18 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Outlook question

Thanks Lambert -- exactly what I needed. :)

You know -- like John -- the first thing I thought of was... who's not 
running virus protection? But, even so, I have to be responsible for what I 
write.

Now, I vaguely remember all this, but I guess it's just so old that my old 
brain has let it go to make room for newer more exciting stuff. :)

Susan H.


> 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 This might be true of you have no or out of date 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.
>
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