Also blocked are photo CD images, screensavers, and HTML application files, according to a list supplied by Microsoft. But critics are already saying the cure may be worse than the disease. Go to the full story by Joe Wilcox. In this case, Microsoft is damned when it doesn't. Then it's damned when it does.
Viruses cost a lot of time and money.
And despite outbreak after outbreak, vast numbers of e-mail users still fail to take commonsense measures to prevent the spread of infections. Part of the problem has been Outlook itself. It gets dinged for going too far. Critics say Microsoft has made it too difficult to turn off the feature. But wait a minute.