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Re: [ST] warning...maybe
- Subject: Re: [ST] warning...maybe
- From: Eric Sheley <Eric@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 20:13:56 -0500
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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