MS Security Instructions for Outlook Plain Text

Microsoft's recommendations for Browser and Email security give
instructions to set up Outlook to read messages as plain text.
However, the option doesn't appear as described on what I believe
to be the latest version and service pack of Outlook:

Microsoft Outlook 2002 (10.6515.6626) SP3

The checkbox "Read all standard mail in plain text" does
not appear in the indicated location nor anywhere else
I can find. I've had a number of people ask me about this
in the past hour.

When I try a Google search for instructions, all I can find for
Outlook are registry editing instructions.

So are Microsoft's instructions wrong or am I missing something?

http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/settings.mspx#XSLTsection127121120120

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Gary Flynn
Security Engineer
James Madison University

Gary
Mon Jun 28 10:23:50 CDT 2004

Gary Flynn wrote:

> Microsoft's recommendations for Browser and Email security give
> instructions to set up Outlook to read messages as plain text.
> However, the option doesn't appear as described on what I believe
> to be the latest version and service pack of Outlook:
>
> Microsoft Outlook 2002 (10.6515.6626) SP3
>
> The checkbox "Read all standard mail in plain text" does
> not appear in the indicated location nor anywhere else
> I can find. I've had a number of people ask me about this
> in the past hour.
>
> When I try a Google search for instructions, all I can find for
> Outlook are registry editing instructions.
>
> So are Microsoft's instructions wrong or am I missing something?
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/settings.mspx#XSLTsection127121120120

To answer my own question, the instructions only apply to
Outlook 2003. 2002 requires a registry change. It would be
nice if Microsoft made note of that in their instructions.


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Gary Flynn
Security Engineer
James Madison University