A reason not to use browsers for e-mail - e-mail wiretapping (fwd)

[Ian BROWN]

>The only long-term way to make things safe is to run browsers, email
>readers & so on in their own virtual machine, under a userid that has no
>access to damage any other virtual machine.

I just don't understand why Outlook and friends don't do this on WinNT/2000. 
My NT hacking friends say it is trivial to spawn a process with fewer rights 
than its parent. In Win2k you can even run programs and control panel-lets as 
a different user (hold down shift, right-click on the program and select "Run 
as...")

Similarly, they should use cut-down versions of programs like Word that DON'T 
have the ability to run macros to view attachments!

Ian :0)