I have been contacted by one of our users who had a message blocked by Declude Virus and was sent a warning about a Outlook vulnerability contained in the email. The problem is that it was a web server generated email message and not sent from an Outlook/Outlook Express client.
A vulnerability with a name referring to a product refers to a vulnerability *in* that product, not necessarily generated by it (for example, a hacker would likely take advantage of an IIS vulnerability using a special tool, not IIS itself). This does confuse a lot of people.
[Outlook 'MIME segment in MIME Preamble' Vulnerability]
You can find out more about this vulnerability at http://www.declude.com/Virus/vulnerability.htm .
Most likely, the company sending the E-mail hired a web developer instead of a real computer programmer to write a program to send out the E-mail, and the web developer tried his best to send the E-mail, but didn't do it properly.
-Scott
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