Regarding my company, I will not discuss how we are securing our back doors and keeping our systems secure. If we keep our MS products up to date and make ourselves aware of forthcoming threats then we can avoid (not vanish.:-)) the threats. When you talk about security holes and exploits then why to use Outlook as it is also a MS product and has got issues with security and bugs (as explained earlier). We can use WORD to send emails HTML and plain text format. dat file not WORD so we cant really blame word for just ticking one option in outlook 'Use MS Word as email editor'.
dat file is used to preserve the formatting of email when email is sent in RTF format.
DAT attachments then it is due to the fact that.
