Consensus opinion required - was 'more worms'

[Alex Snow]

Hi All,
I use outlook depress to read email, since my linux box is still in pieces.
How can I stop active x controls and other code from launching the files?
Norton catches them only after the file is opened.  Is there any way to stop
this?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at attbi.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: Consensus opinion required - was 'more worms'


> Hi Kerry. Well said, no doubt on your statements. I remember the days back
> when plain text was perhaps the only method for sending e-mail (late 80's
> early 90's). Those were the good days!
>
> Gates go to hell, your OS is waiting for you there!
>
> On Wed, 15 May 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
>
> > Hi Kerry,
> >
> > No question about it, things would be a whole lot better if
> > nobody sent html emails - I only wanted to point out that many
> > html emails can readily be handled by pine (and perhaps other
> > mail readers) and also that html email comes with and without
> > viruses as do plain text emails - banning html is no protection
> > against viruses.
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote:
> >
> > > Chuck I should point out that certain versions
> > > of pine have contained buffer overflows in the html processing
elements
> > > and so did older versions of mutt and lynx.
> > > I am not taking a stand one way or the other regarding html messages
> > > except to say that there are dangers in html;
> > > more so for Windows users than Linux ones but the Linux dangers
> > > exist as well.
> > > I don't mind html if there is an equivalent plain text section,
> > > but replying to html only messages causes me grief.
> > > I for my own reasons choose to send to mailing lists in plain text
> > > to minimize bandwidth usage and also message bloat.
> > > I encourage people to set their look out distress
> > > settings to send in plain text where possible but let it reply to a
message
> > > in the format it was received in.
> > >
> > > Regards, Kerry.
> > > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:16:13AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I am still a pine user, and on my system pine reads html messages
> > > > transparently, no problem. HTML has nothing to do with most
> > > > viruses. Executable attachments that launch themselves are the
> > > > real problem.
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Since I've been using mutt to read my mail, I really haven't been
> > > > > affected either way with HTML mail.  When I used pine, it was an
> > > > > annoyance but no more than that.  But I think I would favor a
blockage
> > > > > of HTML mail since the reasons sighted below and some people still
use
> > > > > windows mailers on the list; so go for it!
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:48:26PM +0100, 'Georgina' wrote:
> > > > > > Hi All
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Because of the use of html messages being used to transmit
Windows
> > > > > > viruses, I wondered if folks would agree to having list messages
> > > > > > restricted to plain text only?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The list owner will act upon whatever the consensus is.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Gena
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Have your say:
> > > > > > Blindness Advocacy and Self Help Online www.bashonline.org
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Please don't send me MS Word documents, see
> > > > > > http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Personal Contact Details:
> > > > > > E-mail: gena at gena-j.net WWW: http://www.gena-j.net ICQ:
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