Didtheyreadit spyware - How do I tell if a message used it?

[Sean]

At work we're running Outlook 2000 SR-1.

I've done some reasearch on the didtheyreadit spyware and how to turn
that capability off. I don't have access to the registry and don't
really want to do anything too drastic.

At this point I'd settle for just being able to tell if a message I've
received contains the embedded invisible .bmp file (or whatever it is)
that links back to the didtheyreadit servers.

Is there a way to tell that either before or after the message is
read?

Thanks

 

[Jerry]

There is a free program called NoSpyMail that does this. It is available at
http://www.belshe.com/nospymail/

I've been using it for a while and it does a good job of blocking these and
other similar read spies.