NEED HELP USING ATTACHMENTS

[Don Bradner]

Probably not something we should pursue heavily in this forum, so just a short
answer.

You have absolutely confused privacy with net security. I am not a private
person - my physical location even is broadcast. I am, however, very careful
about net security. At one time 100% of viruses and trojans passed via e-mail.
Now it is probably down to something like a measly 98%, as other delivery
methods have developed slightly.

Text e-mail itself is 100% safe from exploits. Actual attachments are not, but
can be opened in applications that are 100% safe, or blocked at the server level
(you can't send me any form of executable, for example). Inline html used to be
a way to directly attack a computer, but now it is primarily a means of
obfuscating attacks, with social engineering.

Yahoo does not send attachments, but they may use inline imaging.

On 11/5/2009 at 3:11 AM gregory O wrote:

>Don, I cant see what is wrong with html in an email. being that you post
>in a forum that broadcast your ip to the public and shows the ip to
>google bots , I figured you to be OUT as far as net security goes.
>Greg
>94ptca