Re: INTERNET EXPLORER
From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 09/03/04
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Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 06:29:40 -0700
PA Brett wrote:
> WhenI click on a link to open a web document all that appears is a
> little squre box in the upper left corner of the screen. Is there
> something in my advaced settings that I need to change?
When you click on a link from where? From Outlook Express or from within
Internet Explorer (your browser)? Is this after applying SP2: If OE
after SP2, see below for changes to OE:
Source:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2email.mspx
Outlook Express now has picture handling facilities similar to Outlook
2003. This prevents senders of spam e-mail from determining whether a
recipient opens a message. It does this by preventing the automatic
display of pictures from Internet servers. The user is presented with
placeholders and the Information Bar gives the user the option to
display the
picture.
[Pictures and images embedded in HTML e-mail messages can be adapted to
secretly send a message back to the sender. These are often referred to
as Web beacons. Spammers rely on information returned by these images
to confirm active e-mail addresses. Some spam messages contain Web
beacon images so small that they are invisible to the human eye-but not
to Outlook Express.
An improved defense against Web beacons is to stop pictures from
downloading until you've had a chance to review the message. Outlook
Express in Windows XP SP2 will now block images automatically in
messages from people who are not in your address book. This goes a long
way in preventing the verification of your e-mail address for spammers.
It makes your e-mail name less useful to spammers and may result in
your getting less spam over time.
This feature also minimizes a common annoyance for those using dial-up
network connections. In earlier versions of Outlook Express, if you
read an HTML e-mail message with a picture embedded in it, Outlook
Express would automatically try to connect to the Internet to retrieve
any reference images. With image blocking in Outlook Express, this will
no longer happen -
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/ieoeoverview.mspx ]
Malke
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