Re: [ST] warning...maybe

[Eric Sheley <Eric@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Not to mention that viruses very often come from people you know - so using 
the "don't open exe from people you don't know" doesn't work too well....

For instances where dumping M$ Outlook is not an option, good virus 
protection is the next best thing. Outlook and no virus scan is only asking 
for trouble....

At 12:30 AM 11/14/2001 +0000, Mike Bostock wrote:
>All well and good, but if you happen to be a poor unfortunate that uses M$
>Outlook and you have 'hide extensions of known file-types' switched on 
>then you
>will never know it is an .exe.  Moreover Nimda 'hides' the file-type of the
>executable in its payload by reporting a different file-type in the Mime 
>header
>:-|
>
>Advice - ditch Outlook.


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