Re: MSIE buffer overrun

matt sawkill (matt@SHAOLIN.GEN.NZ)
Sat, 21 Mar 1998 13:21:50 +1200

>This not only crashes MSIE4 but also Eudora4.0 (yes the mail reader...)
>I can't read this mail with out a crash. I had to read it in pine on a
>unix system.
>
>Cheers Christian

Eudora Pro 4.0 gives you an option (under Tools.Options.Viewing Mail) to
"Use Microsoft's Viewer"
Selecting this will use the IE 4.0 engine to view your mail messages, and
because of Eudora's preview pane,
it can crash Eudora as soon as a message arrives with the naughty <embed>
tag , which can be quite confusing.

On my system (Win 95a, IE 4.01) receiving the original posting about the
bug caused Eudora to page fault and die an ugly unrecoverable death.

Solution: Downgrade to Eudora Pro 3.0, which is almost identical feature
wise, and is a lot more efficient, or just don't use IE 4.0 as Eudora's
mail viewer,
which makes no real difference as far as i can see.

Don't go moaning to Qualcomm about this one, the bug is in IE.
This seems to be the latest of many similar bugs in IE 4.0,
how much effort would it of taken to fix them all when the first one was
found?
Anyone else hanging out for March 31st?

Matt Sawkill
Webmaster, CompSci student, Geek at large
matt@shaolin.gen.nz
www.isotope.net.nz/matt/