
ActiveX? Explorer?
What are this ActiveX and Explorer you speak of? These words are strange to me...
Microsoft has suspended the "Attach-Photo" feature in Hotmail as a result of security concerns. Webmail users can still add photos as attachments to Hotmail messages, just not in the same way as before. Microsoft expects to restore the suspended feature by the end of September. Microsoft spoke about the recent suspension in …
Came up as here's some photos email from a mate. 3 supposed JPGs with the DSC and 4 digits. All pointed to executables. My AV caught it. Deleted email and warned friend. I think they were some kind of trojan downloaders with an "8" in the name.
NB Email send list included friends name so from line might have been spoofed.
So did this picture attachment feature not check file type or content?
Can you say regression testing?
so Hotmail, which I don't use, can't input what should only be simple ass HTML 4 code to embed a .jpg or .gif in the body of an email instead using an active X control exploitable in IE, the only browser that bothers with active X controls by default to read a stupid webpage like Hotmail .. where IE could handle the not exploitable HTML display method, or even a proven piece of javascript securely
me head's spinning from the circular clusterfuck that is Microsoft on the web ... LIve!
"Some of you may have noticed that lately, you can no longer add photos directly into the body of a Windows Live Hotmail message the way you used to do".
Er no, because I wouldn't use any of your services IF YOU FUCKING PAID ME!
By the way how's the WORD case going? Have you bought your way out of it yet? Arse!
Ps. Isn't it about time we had a psycho Ballmer picture on Reg? as Bill looks like he's off to Europe (Scorpios) with his wife, that is if the Greek courts can be persuaded to let him buy the island - or so I hear.
Nope that's a standard Hotmail security feature, they block anything that's relayed through an alternate source - such as a mobile phone mail server (if your email address is not with that mobile phone company). As a result an awful lot of people can no longer email hotmail accounts on the go and the only way to fix this is to get MS to add your email to a list, except there's no direct way to do that and their help center is as useless as the proverbial wet paper bag.