I got a spam last night that automagicaly sent me to a web page, and even
spawned an additional browser window to add insult to injury. Having had
enough, I went to www.google.com and typed "microsoft outlook script
disable" and found this in hit #7

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From: Ben H. (ben*no s p a m*@apl.washington.edu)
Subject: Re: Disabling vbs attachments in Outlook Express
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.outlookexpress
View complete thread (11 articles)
Date: 2000/05/05
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Outlook Express 5.0:
  1.. Start Outlook Expess
  2.. Click on the Tools in the main menu, and select "Options" at the
bottom.  This brings up the "Options" window.
  3.. In the Options window, press the "Security" tab.
  4.. There are two panes within the Security window:  the top is
"Security Zones" and has two options:
    1.. Internet Zone
    2.. Secure Zone
  5.. Click the button next to Restricted Sites Zone.

If you happen to try to open an attachment that turns out to be a worm
like the "I Love You" worm, you will now get a warning that you are
trying to run a script, and you can click CANCEL to prevent it from
running.

However, I'd recommend doing one more thing that will simply disable the
script's presence and threat entirely!

Increase the security of your Restricted Sites Zone so that it ignores
Visual Basic Scripts (all e-mail attachments with problems are either
executable programs (i.s. filename.exe) or a Visual Basic Script (i.e.
filename.vbs).  The problem is that the Visual Basic script can be
hidden inside a regular e-mail attachment, or the filename extension may
be hidden, so additional precautions should be taken.  Here's how!

  1.. Start Internet Explorer
  2.. Click on the Tools menu item and select Internet Options to bring
up the Internet Options window
  3.. Click on the Security tab
  4.. Click on the red icon labelled Restricted Sites
  5.. Press the Custom Level button at the bottom.  This brings up a
window with various settings in it.
  6.. Scroll down until you see the heading called "Scripting".
  7.. If subheadings are not visible right under it (i.e. Active
Scripting, Allow paste operations via script, Scripting of Java
applets..) then just double click on Scripting to make the subheadings
appear
  8.. When you see the entry called Active Scripting, press the Disable
setting (the settings are right under it, labelled Disable, Enable, and
Prompt).
  9.. Press OK at the bottom
  10.. Press OK in the Internet Options window

If you've done both these things correctly, you will not be able to get
infected by this worm nor any other copycat worm since they requires
scripts to be run in order to do damage, and you've completely disabled
that feature.  Believe me, turning it off will not change your life
much, Microsoft only has it turned out because it makes money selling
Visual Basic compilers.
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Don'cha think M$ knows better than to permit malicious code from running on
a computer? I swear M$ engineers must have tried every way to back up and
re-install software, and in each case found some clever little way to force
you to re-install using their program disk. I use to use a CVF and found
they plugged that 'hole' by killing doublspace/drivespace in FAT 32.

One day one of their employees, or perhaps a 'patriotic' FBI agent is going
to sell the list of all the security holes the NSA has paid Micro$oft to put
into their software to an enemy. Then once again our government and industry
will learn how treachery often backfires.

Scott

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