24th May 2001

Previously, we changed the procedure followed when receiving suspicious emailed files from users by altering the default action from Open to Edit. This doesn't address the potential problem of you inadvertently sending an embedded virus yourself, however. Any email client capable of sending HTML email is also capable of embedding a virus within a message, which we know is an obvious problem. One surefire way of preventing this is to set your email client to send plain old text email as the default. Sure, you won't get to use all of the cool stationary or creative use of colors and fonts, but you can override those on an individual message basis. If you're in a high-risk environment, do yourself and your address book members a favor and abstain... just say no to HTML! This won't affect your ability to receive HTML email (such as Lockergnome), so no worries.