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Glen,
But the 'restricted sites" settings only effect those sites designated as
such on that panel, no? Wouldn't you have to know the site that was going to
send you the virus for this to do any good? Am I missing something? If I
were to set all the "Internet" panel options to disable I would think I
might be safer but it would make for difficult browsing. For a while I had
just the "prompt before storing cookies" option because I didn't like all
the stuff piling up in my hard drive, but it made me too crazy with the
prompt coming up all the time. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Wallace" <gcwallace@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Omega Listserver" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "MetaStock listserver" <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: VIRUS ALERT
> > > The Trojan horse program, which is hidden in an HTML (hypertext
> > > markup language) format e-mail message, carries two attached files
> > > that are executed automatically when an infected message is opened on
> > > PCs running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system and e-mail
> > > client software such as Outlook.
> >
> >
> > Yet another reason NOT to use LookOut. Or any other "smart" mailer.
> > Personally I use Pegasus. It works just fine for 98% of the emails I
> > get. A few of them don't display with the pretty wallpaper and other
> > foo-foo, but most of those are spam anyway. And in NO case is that
> > wallpaper critical to the content. Meanwhile Pegasus is too "stupid"
> > to get infected by script virii like this.
> > And it's free. http://www.pmail.com
>
>
> And one of the reasons e-mail list etiquette says you don't post using
> HTML. Regardless, Outlook Express allows you to change your settings
> to not allow scripts and other such instructions to run. Users who
regularly
> receive HTML mail should go to the Security tab in OE's Tools | Options...
> and change the Security Zones setting to "Restricted sites zone." Now,
> Win98's Restricted Sites Zone's settings still have some weaknesses, so
> go to Internet Options in Control Panel, select the Security tab and click
> on the Restricted Sites icon. Click the Custom Level... button and
> change all the settings to "Disable", click OK, OK and exit from Control
> Panel.
>
> These settings won't stop the execution of phone-home bugs in HTML
> e-mail (you need a firewall for that), but it will stop a lot of the
nasties.
>
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