Re: [seul-edu] E-mail

[Michael Viron <mviron@wsdo.sao.uwf.edu>]

If you plan to utilize Windows '95 and Internet Explorer 5.0, you should go
to windowsupdate.microsoft.com and apply all of the "security patches" and
2000 updates.  From a stock Win '95 install, there is about 5-6 MB of
security patches / updates.

Mike

At 04:05 PM 12/12/1999 +0100, you wrote:
>Quoting Chad Whitten <cwhitten@intop.net>:
>
>> If you are planning to use Outlook Express 5, it supports http mail and can
>
>If you're going to use Outlook Express -- be sure to get 
>the updates -- it has was a dangerous flaw (if I remember 
>correctly -- a JavaScript problem) that allow email to be 
>run without the user opening the email.  (I never tried 
>the exploit, but there was a lot of information about it 
>on Bugtraq).  I assume there is a patch by now, but since 
>I don't use it I didn't track it too closely.
>
>Bill
>
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