Microsoft Windows Vista On Demand

Protecting Against E-mail Attacks

In Windows Mail, security zones allow you to determine whether or not to run active content, such as ActiveX controls, from inside HTML e-mail messages, which potentially can carry viruses and other harmful threats. You can adjust the security zone levels using Internet Options in the Control Panel. To provide further protection, you can set options to let you know when an program tries to send mail with your e-mail address to contacts in your address book (which is a common way to propagate a virus), to not allow attachments to be saved or opened that might contain a virus, and to stop pictures and other content from automatically downloading to your computer (which is a common way spammers confirm your e-mail ...