Protecting Yourself from Rogue HTML
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the default display format for messages created in both Outlook Express and Outlook. In either program, you can override this default format for outbound messages. That is, you can set Outlook Express to compose messages in plain text instead of HTML; in Outlook you can choose to compose messages in plain text or Rich Text Format (RTF) if, for some reason, you don't want to use HTML.
By default, inbound messages formatted in HTML are displayed in HTML, which means that Outlook and Outlook Express are potentially exposed to the same HTML threats as a Web browser—malicious scripts or hostile ActiveX controls, for example. In their current versions, both programs include an option ...
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