Authentication by biometric smart card

✍ Scribed by Tim Smith

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 198 KB
• Volume: 2000
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1353-4858
• DOI: 10.1016/s1353-4858(00)06011-6

✦ Synopsis

news 5 a download of approximately 1 megabyte, is available (from 22 May) on Microsoft's Web site.

Once the patch is applied Outlook will become somewhat convenient to use but a lot safer. The changes to the E-mail package take two basic forms. Firstly, Outlook will refuse even to look at certain types of message attachments, such as the so-called VB Script attachment that carried the Love Bug payload, and users cannot override this. Essentially, all program attachments will be blocked.

The second set of changes, which most Outlook users will be more likely to notice, severely restricts how other programs get access to the Outlook address book. A program, other than Outlook itself, will need permission from the user every time it needs access to the address book. This feature cannot be turned off.