Disable JavaScript in Email to Avoid Disclosure of Message Contents
In light of the reports circulating around the Internet regarding the major mail readers' mishandling of JavaScript in messages containing HTML, CTDATA recommends that all customers disable execution of JavaScript in Email messages.
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JavaScript may be disabled within email read by Netscape Communicator as follows:
- Choose "Preferences" from the "Edit" menu.
- Click on the "Advanced" item on the left hand pane of the Preferences window. (It is not necessary to expand the "Advanced" item to reveal the items beneath it in the hierarchy.)
- De-select the check box labeled "Enable JavaScript for Mail and News".
CTDATA does not recommend use of Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express because those mail readers have been exploited repeatedly by viruses and trojan horses. In spite of this, we shall provide instructions to disable JavaScript in Email messages. Those instructions are not available at this time.