Bug in Outlook 2003's Reading Pane - it downloads attachments

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Steve

Hi,

O2K3's Reading pane will download any attachments to a temporary folder
regardless as to the security settings within the application.

Can anyone else verify this please ?

This becomes noticable when the attachments contain viruses.... the virus
checker thankfully detects them, but... it probably wouldn't if the virus
was really new...


Thanks,


Steven.
 
Steve said:
O2K3's Reading pane will download any attachments to a temporary
folder regardless as to the security settings within the application.

Can anyone else verify this please ?
Click to expand...

I can verify that attachments are not placed on disk until they're opened.
Moreover, the reading pane will not execute code.
 
Any idea why mine would be written to the disk ?

e.g.
C:\Documents and Settings\steve\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\OLKB\readme.zip



The attachments are on hotmail messages.
 
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