A while back M$ produced a host fix for IE/OE that deems JPEG files a security risk and stops users from opening or displaying them. Is this a problem that exists for all attached images or is it just images sent from Linux mail clients? I only use Evolution for email so I'm not sure how to works between OE and OE. Anyone else seen this sort of errant behaviour from OE? Regards -- Oliver Jones » Director » oliver.jones(a)deeperdesign.com » +64 (21) 41 2238 Deeper Design Limited » +64 (7) 377 3328 » www.deeperdesign.com
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:56:53PM +1300, Oliver Jones wrote:
A while back M$ produced a host fix for IE/OE that deems JPEG files a security risk and stops users from opening or displaying them. Is this a problem that exists for all attached images or is it just images sent from Linux mail clients? I only use Evolution for email so I'm not sure how to works between OE and OE. Anyone else seen this sort of errant behaviour from OE?
I think I recall a bug that a jpeg file with a malicious header could cause a buffer overflow in the MS jpeg handler, but I thought their fix merely fixed their library... I don't recall their fix being to disable jpegs completely. If they disabled every filetype that might be a security risk.... Then again I don't use windows email clients. Perhaps the content type of the attachment is causing problems? John.
A while back M$ produced a host fix for IE/OE that deems JPEG files a security risk and stops users from opening or displaying them. Is this a problem that exists for all attached images or is it just images sent from Linux mail clients? I only use Evolution for email so I'm not sure how to works between OE and OE. Anyone else seen this sort of errant behaviour from OE?
Well, it just so happens that my machine is booted into Windows at the moment (why, you ask? Power Tab Editor, a guitar tablature program, that there doesn't appear to be a Linux version of), and I'm reading your message in OE. Nothing I look at seems to have a problem here. (However, John's message got rendered as two attachments!) I don't think I've ever seen anything like that. Outlook and OE ship with "no executable attachments" out of the box, but that's just silly in most cases and tends to be the first thing I turn off. Craig
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