Preview Pane Pain

[MIG]

I am using Outlook 2000 and Exchange 5.5.

I always switch off the preview pain to stop any HTML from running,
but for some reason the preview pane in Deleted Items keeps coming
back.

The result of this is that when I delete a dodgy-looking message, but
neglect to keep my finger on the shift key. I then go to the Deleted
Items to delete it permanently, but find that it is instantly
previewed and HTML in the message tries to infect the PC.

No matter how many times I switch off the preview pane in Deleted
Items, it is back next time. This doesn't happen with any other
folders.

Can anyone think what is going on here? Could it be due to problems
with the roaming profile?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I always switch off the preview pain to stop any HTML from running,
but for some reason the preview pane in Deleted Items keeps coming
back.

The result of this is that when I delete a dodgy-looking message, but
neglect to keep my finger on the shift key. I then go to the Deleted
Items to delete it permanently, but find that it is instantly
previewed and HTML in the message tries to infect the PC.

Don't open the Deleted Items folder to empty it. Just right-click on it in
the Short-Cut bar or Folder List View and choose "Empty..."
--
Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.

I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I always switch off the preview pain to stop any HTML from running,
but for some reason the preview pane in Deleted Items keeps coming
back.

The result of this is that when I delete a dodgy-looking message, but
neglect to keep my finger on the shift key. I then go to the Deleted
Items to delete it permanently, but find that it is instantly
previewed and HTML in the message tries to infect the PC.

Also, if you're up-to-date on your Outlook updates (SP3, I believe), you
won't have to worry about the preview pane running malicious code.
--
Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.

I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.

 

[Ken Piper]

I've heard over and over that the reading pane (Preview Pane prior to 2003)
is a security threat for code execution. I would love to see documentation
for/against after patches. The Reading Pane in Ootlook 2003 (that doesn't
d/l pix/run code <allegedly>) might have addressed the issues, but I have
seen no documentation.

Anybody seen definitive info about this hole?

Ken Piper
MCP - SQL Server

 

[Brian Tillman]

I've heard over and over that the reading pane (Preview Pane prior to
2003) is a security threat for code execution. I would love to see
documentation for/against after patches. The Reading Pane in Ootlook
2003 (that doesn't d/l pix/run code <allegedly>) might have addressed
the issues, but I have seen no documentation.

Anybody seen definitive info about this hole?

KB article 249972 (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=249972) states:

"Microsoft Outlook allows you to send HTML as the body of a mail message.
Outlook uses the full version of Internet Explorer to render this HTML.
However, Outlook imposes additional levels of security to protect end users
from potential HTML-based malicious code, or viruses. In addition, if the
Outlook 2000 E-mail Security Update is applied, all HTML-based message
active content is automatically disabled."

KB article 262701 (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=262701) contains quite
a bit of detail on what's available in a message and what's not.
--
Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.

I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.

 

[MIG]

KB article 249972 (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=249972) states:

"Microsoft Outlook allows you to send HTML as the body of a mail message.
Outlook uses the full version of Internet Explorer to render this HTML.
However, Outlook imposes additional levels of security to protect end users
from potential HTML-based malicious code, or viruses. In addition, if the
Outlook 2000 E-mail Security Update is applied, all HTML-based message
active content is automatically disabled."

KB article 262701 (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=262701) contains quite
a bit of detail on what's available in a message and what's not.

Just to throw more spanners in the works, I had loads of things in my
deleted items (to keep them out of the way, but I wanted to have a
look again). The preview pane had stayed off for a few days and I
figured it might be a profile issue.

Then just as I was trying to look at them, two things happened.

1) all my deleted items vanished (permanently deleted?)
2) the preview pane was back

This strikes me as being some kind of rule or task running, but I
can't find any setting in any of the menus that says "occasionally
permanently delete all deleted items and switch the preview pane on".

Any ideas? I'm stumped.

 

[MIG]

Just to throw more spanners in the works, I had loads of things in my
deleted items (to keep them out of the way, but I wanted to have a
look again). The preview pane had stayed off for a few days and I
figured it might be a profile issue.

Then just as I was trying to look at them, two things happened.

1) all my deleted items vanished (permanently deleted?)
2) the preview pane was back

This strikes me as being some kind of rule or task running, but I
can't find any setting in any of the menus that says "occasionally
permanently delete all deleted items and switch the preview pane on".

Any ideas? I'm stumped.

Further to this ... I receive an email as postmaster, to which is
attached the wrongly addressed email. I forward it to the right
person, then delete it.

I then decide to look at it. I open the message attached to the
message to the postmaster, and at that point, all items in my Deleted
Items are permanently deleted and sometimes the preview pane comes
back on.

What on Earth kind of rule, task or process can this be?

 

[Brian Tillman]

(e-mail address removed) (MIG) wrote in message

Watch the attribution.

 

[MIG]

Watch the attribution.

A bug in Google presumably. I couldn't have made it do that. There
do seem to be many bugs in Groups (threads suddenly splitting etc).