JS/Exploit (2.7 per cent) - According to Sophos "JS.Exploit is not a virus, but rather an exploit that takes advantage of a security vulnerability in some versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Outlook and Outlook Express.
For example, the software maker has bundled Outlook functions into its MSN 8 internet service. Key issues facing the company include the future of its dial-up internet access business, which faces increasingly credible competition from rivals such...
If you have a Hotmail or MSN account, when you set up your account in Outlook Express, you can set it up with any return address you want, and the Hotmail/MSN mail servers cheerfully send mail with any old return address you want," Levine said.
As many as 18 million Hotmail subscribers will be weaned from a free service that lets them export email to another mail client, under Microsoft MSN's new spam-fighting plan. Starting Monday, MSN will grant use of Web DAV tools only to paid...
Its free Hotmail email website, which boasts nearly 200 million accounts, has been a key driver of traffic to its revenue-producing MSN web portal. Its Outlook Express is a popular free end-user application.
Around November, Hotmail and MSN will flag as potential spam those messages that do not have the tag to verify the sender, according to Craig Spiezle, a director in the technology care and safety group at the software maker.
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