[ale] OT: offline malware removal tool for windoze

[Robert Reese]

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On 8/16/2007 at 3:32 PM Jeff Lightner wrote:

>Of course turning off the preview pane helps.  I use Outlook on my
>company provided desktop and have yet to see it open a link on which I
>didn't click.
>
>I've always thought it should be called preview "pain".  To me such
>previews are annoying as hell and take up screen real estate.  If I
>can't tell from the sender and subject whether I want to open it (sorry
>my Paypal account alert isn't going to be opened since I don't have a
>Paypal account) then I simply delete it.


Yes, you are absolutely right; in fact one of the single biggest good things someone who is so much at risk can do is turn off the preview pane.  Unfortunately, MS makes it incredibly difficult to discover where to turn it off in some of its products.  Just as bad is they make html the default format to read *and* send and make they make turning off HTML either impossible or at the very least rather difficult all the while hassling you about the supposed advantages of html.

It's not all MS's fault, though.  Too many people think Outlook Express (OE) is the *official* email program of the world _and_ they think reading their email via the preview pane is the way you are supposed to read it.  Heck, I've met too many people that had no clue that you could double-click on a message and it would open in its own window.  Of course, once I showed them they didn't like it because it was too much of a pain to go from one message to another that way.  I learned out a long time ago not to feel sorry for ignorant people (ignorant in the true meaning where they have been exposed to information and choose to _ignore_ it) and charge them accordingly.  I figure either they'll get clued in and not want the expense of repair, or they won't get it and I'll have another payday from them at some point.  I do cover my karmic butt by giving them the aforementioned information. ;c)

Cheers,
Robert~

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