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Excellent information, Dennis. Thanks for posting it.
Regards,
Monte
DH wrote:
>
> > it is a serious vulnerability, essentially enabling a virus,
> > worm, or trojan to auto-run on your machine simply by opening an email.
>
> It's worse than that. The code can be embedded in a malicious web page.
> I don't (and never will) use OE for email but I use IE for my browser
> because too many web pages won't display right without it. I did the
> patch immediately when I read this.
>
> <<<<<<<
> If a malicious user sends an affected HTML e-mail or hosts an affected
> e-mail on a Web site, and a user opens the e-mail or visits the Web
> site, Internet Explorer automatically runs the excecutable on the user's
> computer.
> >>>>>>>>
>
> While I was at it, I ran all the security patches I had missed since my
> last upgrade. If you're running IE5.5 SP1 (the latest version), you
> still need everything starting with the 11/22/00 patch. There are 6 of
> them altogether.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/download/
>
> --
> Dennis
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