RTF is a benign file format and does not support scripting or embedded HTML tags. I know of large companies that require all external documents be sent to them as RTF to avoid the problems of macro viruses and other malicious code. Brownfox -----Original Message----- From: Paul Schmehl [mailto:pauls@utdallas.edu] Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 6:36 PM To: Leonard Chung; guninski@guninski.com; Ben Schorr Cc: 'BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM' Subject: RE: More Office XP problems The default editor for Outlook XP (2002) is Word *if* Office is installed. (I don't know if it is if Office isn't installed.) Default "sending type" is RTF. {{shudder}}