Re: Can OE be made secure??


"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message news:ugkPRevNFHA.604@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
From: "Grzegorz Niemirowski" <gnthexfiles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

| David H. Lipman <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> napisa³(a): 
OE is NOT secure enough as noted by the prevalence of numerous
vulnerabilities both patched an unpatched.
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| So give examples of viruses spreading by unpatched vulnerabilities in OE.
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| -- | Grzegorz Niemirowski, Poland, Europe, www.grzegorz.net
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Anything that affects IE. Go to Secunia or any CERT and look for yourself.


Not if OE is set to read all messages in plain text. MSHTML is then not invoked at all, so none of the IE vulnerabililties apply.

Try reading:

 Use the New Security Improvements in Outlook Express
 http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/web/sp2_oe.mspx

Changes to Functionality in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 Part 4: Email Handling
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2email.mspx

Microsoft Outlook Express and Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2: Several Problems or Superior Protection?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/oeandsp2.mspx

 steve


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