Nowadays, many viruses are spread over the Internet, especially through emails. However, virus or malicious code in the email must be contained in HTML code. As long as the email program does not parse and display the HTML code, nothing will happen.
Foxmail
Right-click an account and select "attributes". The "account attributes" dialog box is displayed. Select "font and display" to cancel the "display HTML mail with embedded ie" check box (1 ).
After that, HTML emails will be displayed in TXT. If you want to view them, click the magnifier icon on the toolbar. If you think the title of a letter is strange and it is regarded as a virus, do not click the magnifier icon. Right-click the magnifier icon and select a command to save the HTML content or open it in a browser (2 ).
Outlook Express
Click "View> layout", cancel the "display Preview pane" check box (3) in the displayed window, and click "OK" to return. If you see a strange mail title, do not double-click it so that the virus will not attack. To view an email, double-click the email to view it.
Tips
You can also use a plug-in named no-HTML. After installation, Outlook Express does not display the HTML content in the email.
Outlook
1. Outlook 2003
Select Tools> options, click the "preferred Parameters" tab, and then click the "email options" button, in the displayed window, select "read all standard emails in plain text format" (4 ).
2. Outlook 2000/XP
(1) modify the Registry
Open Registry Editor, go to [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftoffic9.0OutlookOptionsMail], right-click the right pane, select new> DWORD value, and name it ReadAsPlain. Double-click this key, set it to 1 (5) and restart Outlook. If you use Outlook XP, go to [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice10.0OutlookOptionsMail] and perform the preceding operations.
(2) external tools
Download the file from http://ntbugtraq.ntadvice.com/download/nohtml.zip, And put nohtml.dllin it Folder (If windows 9x is used, put it in, and then Folder ).
Open Outlook, select "Tools> options", click the "Others" tab, click the "advanced options" button, and then click "COM add-on" in the displayed window ", click "add" and select nohtml. dll file (6.
Becky
In Becky, Click Tools> General settings, click the mail view tab, and then cancel the convert to plain text button under HTML view (7 ). Becky will view the HTML email as an attachment. If we feel that the email is okay, double-click the HTML file in the attachment box to open it in the default browser.