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On Thursday, January 18, 2001, 7:12:27 PM, DH wrote:
D> 1. There is no need for AV software to protect against email worms.
D> I don't leave mine running routinely because it slows down my
D> system.
I don't either. I have also found that it can cause major stability
problems and have disabled it. I save attachments that I deem
important, and DO run AV software on them before I open them. Also, I
use nothing but a VIEWER to look at gifs, etc. I would NEVER use IE or
any other 'active' program to view them.
D> If Outlook Express users would just change their email
D> security to "Restricted," they would be immune to email viruses.
Also, set OE to send TEXT ONLY - no KAK or HTML virus that way.
D> Or, if they would get decent mail software, they would likewise be
D> immune. :-)
An excellent idea. :-) I run TheBat, and virii are MUCH less of a
worry (I could always do something stupid like double click an
attachment even when warned not to). :-)
D> 2. Code should be posted as plain text rather than ELA files.
I would strongly support this!
D> No
D> experienced TS user I know will paste in an ELA or ELS from somebody
D> he doesn't know. Lots of bad things can happen, from overwriting
D> functions with the same name, to executing malicious system commands.
Absolutely true!
D> It won't even move the file to the recycle bin for easy recovery.
D> What are the chances you would notice that if it were nested about
D> 4 functions deep in some mystery code you pasted into Power Editor?
If I get code like this it does NOT get run. The only way people will
wake up to this is to have a major wipeout on this list. Then,
possibly, people will start to pay some attention.
In general, if I can't 'look inside' something, it doesn't get run.
Another test is to ask several others, who act as 'Guinea pigs', if
they have had problems. The major difficulty with this is finding
people with enough knowledge to know they have a delayed-payload
infection, and who would still run it in the first place. :-)
<temporarily end continuing rant>
ztrader
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