Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Fri Dec 11 17:39:05 CST 2009
No, it's not the case. There are a number of email programs that do not use a browser fro rendering, they have there own HTML engine which is purely that. It reads the markup and formats the text but doesn't execute code/scripts etc under any circumstances. Pegasus Mail is one such program. :-) -- Stuart On 11 Dec 2009 at 18:33, Susan Harkins wrote: > > As long as your email program uses a full blown web browser engine just to > > render the text > > in an email, you are exposed to every new IE (or Firefox if you use > > Thunderbird for your > > email program) exploit that comes along until they release a patch for it. > > > > Having the preview pane automatically render the HTML in an email is > > effectively the same > > as clicking on a link and visiting a malicious website. > > ====But isn't that the case, period? > > Susan H. > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com