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RE: filtering active content

2001-07-28 23:20:03
The correct solution is to find out who at Microsoft refuses to put
security safeguards on the address book(s) and allows scripts to 
fully send messages instead of queueing for approval.  I find it 
amazing that they haven't implemented such easy fixes in the past 
couple of years, after things started getting really bad. 

Good news. This exact safeguard has been available as an add-on "patch"
for Outlook 98 and Outlook 2000 since June 2000, and it is built-in to
Outlook XP (aka Outlook 2002, released several months ago).  People
using Outlook 98 or 2000 with the patch, or anyone using Outlook XP will
not propagate viruses that run as script within Outlook.  
You can read more at:

http://www.microsoft.com/Office/previous/outlook/downloads/security.htm
(related to the patch for Outlook 98 and 2000)

http://www.microsoft.com/Office/it/solutions/security.htm (related to
features in Office XP - information on this feature begins on page 15)

David



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