RE: Images being pulled in Outlook 2003 even though don't download pictures is set?

["Spencer, Mark" <mspencer () evidentdata com>]

I got a significant number of responses to my original question ..
Thanks everyone!

The explanation I got was very consistent - the cid value refers to
content elsewhere in a multi-part message.  When I perform a "Save As"
to HTML from Outlook 2003 and view the output in a text editor, there is
no image data or other parts to the message, which caused my confusion.

-----Original Message-----
From: BugTraq [mailto:BugTraq () bnj com] 
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 1:09 PM
To: Spencer, Mark; security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: Images being pulled in Outlook 2003 even though don't
download pictures is set?

IIRC - the cid value refers to another content section within a
multi-part e-mail message. Images included within a multi-part message
will be displayed in Outlook 2003 no matter what the setting is, since
the setting affects images that are referenced outside of the message.

-----Original Message-----
From: Spencer, Mark [mailto:mspencer () evidentdata com]
Sent: Sunday, 22 August, 2004 09:36
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Images being pulled in Outlook 2003 even though don't download
pictures is set?

I've been getting lots of spam with images being displayed, even though
my Outlook 2003 is set to not download pictures automatically.  Here's
what I think is the relevant code (minus < and >):

DIV align=center
FONT face=Arial size=2
IMG src="cid:kfhyepds_bfjhwcxn_dkiaarqo"
/FONT
/DIV
/BODY
/HTML

Any advice on how to deal with this?  How does that "cid: .." translate
into a legitimate IP address from which to pull an image?

Thanks!

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