Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> The only feature I know about that Outlook
> has and Pegasus lacks is the ability to talk
> to Microsoft's mail servers when they are
> configured to disallow the standard mail
> protocols.
It's not a bug. It's a feature :-)
> Almost every mail client is immune to such
> things. The Outlook family are AFAIK the only
> mail clients that are vulnerable OOTB. Netscape
> Messenger has an option so it can be configured
> to allow Javascript in mail and news, which
> presumably makes it vulnerable, at least in
> theory, but this is not the default state, so
> it is less likely to be targeted than Outlook.
For those that haven't noticed:
Go to Edit->Preferences->Advanced
and uncheck "Enable JavaScript for Mail and News"
IIRC, it's enabled by default (yes, it's stupid).
> Summary: don't use Outlook, or if you do,
> pay attention to security advisories, patches,
> and so on.
Go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
and load each and every security update, also install critical
update notification (if you haven't already done so).
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