E-Mail Stationery in Outlook Express 5 and 5.5

If you see a message saying that your e-mail program may have scripting disabled, please check your security settings in Outlook Express. Scripting is enabled by default in these versions of Outlook Express but your settings may have changed to disable it.

Scripting is used by most types of e-mail stationery. We believe that scripting is safe. E-mail viruses which have been transmitted through HTML e-mail have done so by using "ActiveX", not scripting.

There are two ways to re-enable scripting:

1) Enable scripting but keep ActiveX disabled. This keeps a high level of e-mail security on your computer. You will be able to view most kinds of stationery, including all stationery which is created using Scrippy. Click here for instructions.

2) Enable scripting and ActiveX. This is the default setting in Outlook Express 5 and 5.5. This setting creates a small vulnerability to viruses which exploit bugs in ActiveX controls. (A past example was the "Kakworm" virus.) The risk is small if you:  run an up-to-date anti-virus program, never open unknown e-mail attachments, use Windows Update regularly to apply new bug fixes, and exercise caution in saying "Yes" to popup questions about allowing ActiveX controls to run. If you want to enable scripting and ActiveX, click here for instructions.