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Outlook Program problems when receiving email from Yahoo

Mar 3, 2005 12:59AM PST

On 5 separate occassions, I have received emails from someone with a yahoo account and when I attempt to reply, it freezes up Outlook. I end up having to close the program and restart my computer. I usually delete the email and create a new one rather than attempting to reply again. OS: XP Home. Has anyone heard of anything like this?

By the way, I get tons of emails from different customers, but it's only the occassional yahoo account that does it, not all.

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Absolutely.
Mar 3, 2005 1:16AM PST

As a test I sent some email with the following JAVASCRIPT in the HTML email. Here's the code in plain sight.

file:javascript:while (true) {alert('this window will never see the light of day. mohahahha - Dr.Evil');}

This highlights an issues that all versions of Outlook have. There is no defense in these programs for "bad" html code.

Except to turn off the message preview, then never open unsolicited email.

Bob

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Yahoo Reply's Freezing Up Outlook
May 14, 2005 2:30AM PDT

I'm reading these posts because I am having the same problem. It started about 3 weeks ago. I cannot reply to a yahoo message without outlook locking up. Is there a solution?

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Given my example?
May 14, 2005 7:29AM PDT

No. You can never view or reply to the email with code very similar to what I shared.

No fix is planned.

Bob