pictures in emails from microsoft.com

[Andy Fish]

Hi,

I am using outlook 2003 and it automatically blocks pictures in HTML emails,
which is a good idea.

However, I just got an email from a microsoft.com addres and the pictures
downloaded without prompting.

I have checked my list of trusted sites, safe senders and safe recipients
and none contain microsoft.com

how so? are microsoft exempt from their own security rules?

Andy

 

[me]

that wouldn't surprise me
lol

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The pictures probably were embedded in the messages rather than linked to
source files at microsoft.com.

 

[Andy Fish]

hmm, now here's a funny thing

I just went back into my inbox (after restarting outlook in the meantime)
and the pictures are now blocked in the usual way !?!?

I went and looked at the safe lists yesterday but they were all empty and I
didn't change anything. The only explanation I can think is that maybe
microsoft.com was automatically in the trusted sites list but for some
reason it didn't display, then when I went into the list and pressed OK
again it got deleted ?

very spooky