Text in Outlook that represents Internet and network paths must not be automatically turned into hyperlinks.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-41493	DTOO425	SV-55984r2_rule		Medium

Description
The ability of Outlook to automatically turn text that represents Internet and network paths into hyperlinks would allow users to click on those hyperlinks in email messages and access malicious or otherwise harmful websites.

STIG	Date
Microsoft Outlook 2010	2017-04-28

Details

Check Text ( None )
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Fix Text (F-48823r5_fix)
Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: HKCU\software\policies\Microsoft\office\14.0\outlook\options\autoformat If the REG_DWORD value for pgrfafo_25_1 does not exist, create it with a value of "0". If the REG_DWORD value for pgrfafo_25_1 does exist, change the value to "0".