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My understanding is older versions of Outlook can indeed have a 'preview pane' vulnerability where a received message can possibly autolaunch itself if it becomes active in the preview pane, and I believe that was only related to Outlook Express, the free package included in Windows and not the Outlook 9X, 2000, etc that comes packaged with Office, I believe it's preview pane may have always been safe although that version is perhaps more vulnerable to HTML mail attacks.

However these would be much older, more like initial implementations, that hopefully have long since been upgraded and would in fact be considered one of the more serious threats that an intellegent updater like windowsupdate.com would immediately notice as severe issue.

Any modern version of Outlook Express (normal Outlook not being affected) that came with any recent version of IE (5.1+) would probably not be susceptable. As I said, at least that is my current understanding...