Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Spurious Warnings Atop Outlook Messages

Spurious Warnings Atop Outlook Messages

"Microsoft Outlook uses a rectangular bar above the message header to display information and warnings about the message you're reading. It may report that you replied on such a date, that an attachment was suppressed, or that line breaks have been removed. Sometimes, though, you might see a very different message—perhaps something like "This message violates the USA PATRIOT Act" or "ERROR: Microsoft Outlook detected. Get a REAL email client!" As it turns out, anybody who can control the custom headers for outgoing e-mail messages can cause such a warning to appear. E-mail server administrators have this level of control, as do spammers, hackers...and you! Here's how."


This isn't very "nice" to do to people... but still funny that you can do it.

Reference: digg.com

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