| type="text/javascript"> | | | | When you view an HTML message, embedded |
| Feature-rich email is not only a powerful way of | | | | images and stylesheets are downloaded from a |
| communication, but also a major security threat. The | | | | remote web server. This is called a âweb |
| more features an email service provides the security | | | | bugâ. Your email client (via the built-in HTML |
| holes are made for hackers. In addition to the usual | | | | viewer) sends to that web server all the information it |
| email security headache - executable attachments - | | | | needs to add you to email databases and more. For |
| HTML messages introduce new problems. HTML is | | | | example, the URL of the image downloaded may look |
| not a plain text, it is rendered and it may contain | | | | like: where 98989892991813482 may be the database |
| executable code. You get dozens emails daily. Every | | | | key for your email address. Thus the sender will know |
| time you read an HTML email message - something | | | | for sure that you have read the message. In most |
| could be executed. It is just like you would execute | | | | email clients you can not turn off the HTML mode. |
| dozens of unknown programs daily. | | | | |