Re: Posting formats (OT)

["Neil Lindsey" <neil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> In your message regarding Re: Posting formats (OT) dated Mon, 8 Jan 2001
> 07:27:01 -0800, Neil Lindsey said that ...
>
> >NL-  As far as viruses are concerned I think you have it bass ackwards.
Ooutlook
> >NL-  Express is a primary target for virus attack precisley because so
many
> >NL-  people use it, not because it is a big problem.
>
> Not quite true - there were/are a number of vulnerabilities in Outlook and
> Outlook Express which have been addressed (sometimes after the horse had
> bolted) which are limited to these products and, more recently, on some
> other email clients which use M$ Internet Explorer to view HTML messages.
> Most of the recent ones concerned the fact that viewing an HTML message
> with an Active X script embedded in the message allowed the script to be
> executed (eg KAK Worm).
>

I'm not defending Microsoft from releasing products that have security
vulnerabilities, but I'm also not criticizing them for including progressive
functionality (especially those features that the vendors of other e-mail
client software have chosen to take advantage of as well).  There is no
bug-free software on the face of this planet.



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