Lord knows there are plenty of legitimate defects in Outlook and, therefore, no need to manufacture alarmist reports of fictional ones. (In the virus fighting business they call that a "hoax".)
Michael was mistaken when, in his 4:07 PM post, he said "If you are using any version of Microsoft Outlook or Outlook express, each time you receive an email message, the addresses in the "from" field of the email header are automatically added to your outlook address book." As someone who does use OE, I testify that it does not add the senders of mail that I receive to my address book unless I reply to the sender, and it does so then only if I have told it to (with the "Automatically put people I reply to in my address book" option.) Remember folks, it's not what you don't know that hurts you ... it's all those things that you know but that just ain't so. Thanks, Michael, for your original post of 2:38 PM. It's worthwhile to reiterate from time to time the importance, nay necessity, of virus protection. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Milette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 5:16 PM Subject: RE: Off topic, virus activity > As I said in my original message, I don't use Outlook myself so I am doing > this from memory and I am sure my knowledge is much more limited in that > respect than yours. > > About a year or so ago I installed Outlook Express for a user. After a > couple of weeks, the address auto complete buffer (you know, the thing that > tries to guess who the recipient might be) had all kinds of addresses in it > and I seem to recall finding all kinds of email addresses in the address > book, most of which were unknown to the user of the machine. I seem to also > remember having found an option or read something to the effect that > Outlook will search the addresses of all its incoming messages when trying > to guess the address you are typing. All this is according to my vague > recollection. > > Now for a fact. What I can tell you for sure is that in Outlook Express, > under Tools, Options, "Send" tab, there is an check box called > "automatically put people I reply to in my Address Book". > > I never really gave it much though after that as I quickly whisked the user > away from Outlook Express and migrated them to Eudora with the option to > use Internet Explorer as a viewer disabled. > > Michael > > At 04:41 PM 2002-05-22, you wrote: > >Hello Michael. I have (to my knowledge which may be limited) never seen this > >action by Outlook. But then I usually turn off all extraneous options and > >crap! More info please? > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: > 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY > See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
