Originally published October 14 2003
Spam tackled by email applications
by Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor
This is an important trend: spam will be increasingly blocked by intelligent end user applications, not by third-party anti-spam software solutions. This move by Microsoft sounds the death knell of client-side anti-spam software. I'd hate to be one of the investors who just funded a dozen of these ventures. Server-side anti-spam software, however, should remain strong for years to come. Corporations will continue to prefer tackling spam at a central location rather than leaving it up to individual users.
- A new version of Microsoft Outlook makes it harder for spammers and
scammers to invade users' computers through their e-mail.
- The software, available at the end of October with the release of
Microsoft Office 2003, boasts more-aggressive security features, more
options to disable malicious or snoopy code embedded in e-mails and
attachments, and additional ways to block spam and other unwanted
e-mail.
- However, security options in the new version are set by default at the
highest level.
- Outlook 2003 also allows users to disable all macros -- programming
code that can be concealed within a document or e-mail and can contain a
virus.
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