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Uninstall/Disable Outlook Express?

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TOGG

Discussion Starter · Apr 13, 2004

I have just seen details of the latest (in a long line) of Outlook Express vulnerabilities;http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-013.mspx

I am using Win 98 and I don't have the money or inclination to upgrade this box sufficiently to run XP. I have used OE a few times but the e-mail account I used it with was with an ISP I no longer use. If I open OE I get an error message that it cannot connect to that old ISP.

The MS bulletin suggests that even if you don't use OE the problem is still there so I am wondering if I can cripple or remove OE entirely without breaking anything else?

(I don't think I can use this patch anyway because my version of OE (5), is not mentioned. I have all the other 98 and IE Critical patches.)

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Grinler

· #4 · Apr 14, 2004

If you do not use Outlook Express for your email then this exploit has no ability to affect you. WHen they said in the bulletin "This could occur even if Outlook Express is not used as the default e-mail reader on the system." they are saying the exploit can happen even if your default mail client was netscape messenger, but you used outlook exprss occasionally.

If you dont use it, dont worry abou it.

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