From: "Geo." 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:3ffe3b7b.6418188{at}216.144.1.254...

> Did you read that stuff about the proposed SP2 for XP including a setting
> that will block web bugs by default? (The details were not clear in what I
> read, but I think that is what the non-Microsoft report was saying.)

yes but that won't help all the people running older versions of the OS and IE/OE..

I'm running OE6/W2K here with text view turned on so I'm immune without
XPsp2. A number of people have blocked webbugs simply by setting their
firewall to not allow OE to get out using port 80, that doesn't work as
there are easy ways to expose a user via a webbug on port 25 or 119 or 110.
I've got a working demo of that already at
http://www.nthelp.com/OEtest/oe119.htm that uses port 119 (perfect for
newsgroup webbugs).

Geo.

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