Outlook vs Outloook Express [LWN.net]

Outlook vs Outloook Express

Posted Oct 13, 2003 20:43 UTC (Mon) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224)
In reply to: RE: I.E. "Security hole"? by TwoTimeGrime
Parent article: E-mail filters not fooled by signed spam (News.com)

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but Outlook is the product that comes with Office, correct? It costs $$$$.

And Outlook *Express* is the free one. And the one that has all the bug, holes, exploit of the week.

You can praise Outlook all you want, but Outlook *Express* is what the vast majority if users use, and it's a pile of crap. And Outlook itself, while it may be "safe" with all the patches applied - how many people got nailed by viruses even when the patch has been available for months. Fact is, people don't patch, so even if Outlook is safe, it's not for the vast majority of people who actually use it instead of Outlook Express.

So, either pay $$$ for Outlook, or since Outlook itself has had a large number of security holes, use something like Mozilla Mail. As a side benefit, use Mozilla instead of IE and stop all the spyware from being automagically downloaded onto your computer via ActiveX, DCOM and all the other idiocies M$ has foisted off on us as "useful".

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Outlook vs Outloook Express

Posted Oct 13, 2003 21:44 UTC (Mon) by dlang (subscriber, #313) [Link]

Outlook (the full version) has had another hole found in it within the last month (Ok, technicly it was a hole in IE as used by outlook to process mail, but since you have no other choice it made users of Outlook vunerable), so it may be safe if fully patched, but you had better keep checking becouse next week it may have another hole discovered with no patch for it yet.