Re: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-012

[foobar () COTSE COM]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 01:04:04 +0200, Philip Stoev wrote:

|  > >Mitigating Factors:
|  > >====================
|  > > - There is no means by which a Vcard could be made to open
|  > >   automatically.
|  >
|  > This is not entirely accurate. If you are in the habit of collecting these
|  > odd things, you will have most certainly uncheck-marked the security
|  warning
|  > a long time ago. In that case it is less than trivial to open the Vcard
|  > automatically:
|
|  On IE 5.50.4522.180 with OE 5.50.4133.2400 on Windows 2000 Professional SP1,
|  the user is always prompted. There is no way to uncheck the "ask me" box,
|  because it is disabled (except by editing the registry). I think this also
|  applies for the initial OE 5.
|
|  Philip

Internet Explorer 5.50.4522.1800 with Outlook Express 5.50.*4522.1200* has it
and functions per the demonstration. Definitely a kicker if you have ever
opened vcards in newsgroup posts or mail, you disengage the warning the first
time. To enable the warning again, on win9X do my computer|folder options|file
types|vcard|edit|[x] confirm open after download

HTH

Foo