"Surferbar" virus>Outlook sucks>best browser/email client

[Thermodyne]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
Hmm, well I'm pretty sure the code came in via some piece of spam in outlook express. Didn't even have to open it, just clicking it to delete it was enough. An activex box came up to tell me that something had been done and you can guess the rest.

Thanks for the response anyway.

I guess I could stay offline for a few days, wait for the rest of the world to get infected and the media to panic and start predicting the end of civilisation and maybe then microsoft will climb down off their moneypiles and actually think about releasing a patch to fix this vulnerability.

Otherwise, I may have to switch to a simpler email client- something that doesn't gormlessly open any and every bloody file emailed to it would be nice. Can you get PINE for winxp?

EDIT: Hadn't read Mephisto's response. Thanks, M.

Do you have the preview window turned off and IE set to prompt for ActiveX ?