Microsoft Office Support News Watch =================================== As a subscriber to the Microsoft Office Support News Watch, you receive e- mail twice each month that highlights some of the new articles recently published on Support Online, Microsoft's award-winning technical support Web site. Outlook 98 Updated Security Patch ================================= Microsoft has made an updated patch available for Microsoft Outlook 98 that protects customers against a potential vulnerability involving file attachments with extremely long file names as well a variant found during continued testing. The original vulnerability was caused by improper handling of file attachments with very long filenames in Outlook 98. As part of our on-going security review, we discovered a variant of this vulnerability, which this updated patch addresses. Microsoft strongly recommends that all users download the updated patch to be protected against these vulnerabilities. For information about how to obtain the updated security patch see Knowledge Base article Q175807. This article is available on the Web at the following address: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q175/8/07.asp Get Support Online Articles by E-mail ===================================== You can also access Knowledge Base articles in e-mail by sending a message to mshelp@microsoft.com. In the Subject line of your message, enter the Article-ID number (Qnnnnnn). For example, to receive Q162721, your Subject line should resemble the following: Subject: Q162721 You can have multiple articles sent to you in e-mail by typing multiple Article-ID numbers separated by a comma. For example: Subject: Q178049, Q174914, Q174062 To receive an index of articles, enter "Index" (without quotation marks) in the Subject line. For example: Subject: Index The MSHelp Index is updated monthly. For more information about MSHelp, see http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q183/1/21.asp. Sincerely, The Microsoft Support Online Team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Microsoft-sponsored events: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For information on all Microsoft-sponsored events, please visit: http://events.microsoft.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ How to use this mailing list: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You received this e-mail newsletter as a result of your registration on the Microsoft.com Personal Information Center. You may unsubscribe from this e-mail newsletter, or subscribe to a variety of other informative e-mail newsletters, by returning to the Personal Information Center at http://register.microsoft.com/regwiz/personalinfo.asp and changing your subscription preferences. Alternatively, please send a reply to this e-mail with the word "unsubscribe" as the first line in the body of the message. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. The information contained in this document represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation on the issues discussed as of the date of publication. Because Microsoft must respond to change in market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED 'AS IS' WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND FREEDOM FROM INFRINGEMENT. The user assumes the entire risk as to the accuracy and the use of this document. This document may be copied and distributed subject to the following conditions: 1. All text must be copied without modification and all pages must be included 2. All copies must contain Microsoft's copyright notice and any other notices provided therein 3. This document may not be distributed for profit