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As I have noted previously, not all scripts (.VBS files) are bad. If you are going to
filter, then you might want to dump the filtered emails into a separate folder where you
can decide later what to keep and what to delete. But you can only make that an
informed decision using a virus scanner. Anything else is just guessing. In outlook,
the best way to control this stuff is with the security zones.
And as point of fact, you could get the same viruses that are circulating via email from a
web page script. Of course, you would have to visit the bad page first. And turning off
scripts on the web will pretty much render many pages useless or inoperable. Again, the
only solution is a background virus scanner (or two <g>) with up-to-date signature files.
JW
-----Original Message-----
From: listmanager@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:listmanager@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Earl Adamy
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 10:15 AM
To: realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [RT] Re: First "I love You", and now this. BE WARE!!!
Interesting idea. Unfortunately, while Outlook Express 5 provides the
ability to filter attachments, it does not include the ability to
differentiate among types of attachments. Therefore one can not filter
vbs attachments while keeping gif attachments.
Earl
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Holverstott" <dennis@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 10:45 AM
Subject: [RT] Re: First "I love You", and now this. BE WARE!!!
> Those who haven't done it yet might want to set up a filter to delete
> messages containing .vbs attachments. The gif shows how to do it with
> Netscape 4.7. You need to create two custom headers, content-type and
> content-disposition. Tell it to delete the message if either of those
> contains .vbs.
>
> --
> Dennis
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