[LINK] Phishers are getting lazy

[Chirgwin, Richard]

>The current version of Outlook doesn't download any stuff.
 
Yes, it does. Images. The message in the 'preview pane' has a link to an
image, then Outlook tries to display the image. And this means it tries to
download the image from its source. I'll get the firewall log if you like
... 

Because I'm paranoid (why not be?), I don't let anything not a Web browser
use port 80 without asking my permission. Because I'm curious, I leave it as
a manual process. So in the course of an ordinary day, I get an awful lot of
"Microsoft Outlook wants to contact nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn on Port 80 Permit/Deny"
messages.

RC

-----Original Message-----
From: Malcolm Miles
To: link at anu.edu.au
Sent: 17/02/04 20:37
Subject: Re: [LINK] Phishers are getting lazy

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:23:47 +1000, you wrote:

>Mind you, it highlights the abuse of Port 80 by a Certain Major
>International Software Developer. There is no good reason why Outlook
should
>be >able< to try and download stuff without any user action. Even
images. 

The current version of Outlook doesn't download any stuff.

-- 
Best wishes,
Malcolm

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