Re: Is additional firewall necessary?

DanS <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Sebastian Gottschalk <seppi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:51og5cF1k8350U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:

DanS wrote:

Since when does opening an email attachment execute any programs?
Since when would a sane user execute such programs? Which sane
administrator would allow his users to run any programs?

Well, let's see, OE used to automatically execute HTML contnet when
e-mail was viewed in the preview pane. (I would think that was fixed
by now.)

Abusing Outlook Express as a newsreader is PEBKAC.

Regardless of what PEBKAC means,

problem exists between keyboard and chair.

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