To my knowledge you can find these settings in tools in Outlook...if not
then you will have to give up using the preview pane...
Steve
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On 19 Dec 2001, at 17:36, Tom Turak wrote:
> Somewhat related to this thread, I recently was the recipient of
> two email messages that changed my default homepage address and
> added some urls to my favorites. I think it ran like a virus from
> the preview pane in my outlook; I am not that knowledgable about
> html and java to figure out how it worked, but I didn't see any
> obvious hyperlinks in it to double-click on. So I can't rule out
> there was something I did to launch it, but it appeared to me all I
> needed to do was scroll down to it with the preview pane open. As
> I didn't see any harm could happen (the attacking program only
> wanted to force me to visit sites) we fooled with it for a couple
> hours trying to learn what mechanisms it used to run. I couldn't
> unravel the source that we could see in the email. Cleanup
> required emptying Temporary internet files, erasing history,
> erasing cookies, erasing the favorites it installed, emptying the
> temp folder, and erasing the offending email message. Isn't there
> a setting in outlook for disabling html messages from running these
> kinds of processes? Do you have to avoid using the preview pane
> entirely?
> Tom Turak
As I understand it, the preview pane uses much of the same code as
Internet Explorer to render the message on the screen. Some of the
bad things that could happen to you by visiting a hostile site (but
fewer than it used to be!) can happen to you by displaying an HTML /
JavaScript message in the preview pane.
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