Change that to Disable . The reason these scripts run automatically has to due with two dangerous defaults in Outlook and Outlook Express. Both use security settings that are put in place by Internet Explorer. The Internet zone is the standard security settings you use at a random website. Restricted sites is set up with what Microsoft calls high security.
Mail is inherently more dangerous than a typical web site precisely because of email viruses.
In any sane system, the default for mail should be Restricted Sites but it isn't - the default is Internet zone. This is true with both Outlook and with Outlook Express. This is not unreasonable for the web - too many sites have vb script and java script as central parts of their pages for you to totally turn it off or even to be continually prompted. Copyright 2000 Cal Poly University. All rights reserved.