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HTML e-mail
An e-mail message formatted as a Web page (HTML document). Like a Web page, it can include different fonts and graphics, which regular text e-mail does not support. It enables the publishing of fancy newsletters and reports as well as elaborate advertising, all of which is sent as an e-mail message. In order to view HTML e-mail, the e-mail client program must support it, typically by calling functions within the Web browser to do the actual rendering on screen. HTML e-mail can also be disabled by the user.

A Security Problem
In an effort to make ordinary e-mail as appealing as a Web page, HTML-based e-mail creates more vulnerability to viruses. Like any Web-based HTML page, HTML e-mail pages support scripting, which provides another avenue for exploiting security loopholes. The Nimda worm used HTML e-mail to run an executable attachment automatically. Contrast with text e-mail. See HTML-Lite, Nimda and BubbleBoy virus.


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Indeed, when you consider the source of some of the Internet's most significant innovations--from the Web itself, invented by researchers at CERN in Switzerland, to HTML mail (HoTMaiL), invented by an Indian immigrant, to the first successful peer-to-peer chat technology, invented by an Israeli student and then developed by him and his father--they are all the consequence of shifting the right to innovate to the edge of the network.
SECURITY SUPPLEMENT Spotting E-Burglars -Wick Hill Group HTML Mail can trigger Attachment.
com/emailsecuritytest/, allows visitors to discover if their system is secure against current and future email threats, such as emails containing infected attachments, entails with malformed MIME headers, and HTML mails with embedded scripts.
 
 
 
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