RE: An Innovative Way To Combat E-Mail Viruses

[Ambrose, Joseph]

Title: RE: An Innovative Way To Combat E-Mail Viruses

Hear hear! I’m all for VAPORizing….     Joseph Ambrose System and Network Manager The Conference Board Phone : 001-212-339-0443 Fax : 001-212-836-3802 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit our Award Winning Web Site:  www.conference-board.org   -----Original Message----- From: Micciche Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 12:59 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: An Innovative Way To Combat E-Mail Viruses   I prefer Antigen vaporizing these files before they enter the IS.  :-) -----Original Message----- From: Lefkovics, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 12:44 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: An Innovative Way To Combat E-Mail Viruses   Do you have any idea how many years some of us have been doing that?  Kevin Miller had this idea in the last millenium. 1) It is not innovative.  It's a basic file association option.  The fact that Mr Minasi has just figured it out explains a lot of the mediocrity found in his books (they're ok.  they're just far from great.). Innovative would be to have the extension .vbs open with Outlook, but with certain parameters.   Create an Outlook form preaddressed to IT and CC: the CEO.  Publish this form as VirusAlert. Within the form you would use VBA code to automatically send, something like:         Function Item_Open()                 Item.Send         End Function The body of the email can pull from local environment variables: Warning:  %username% has clicked on an attachment! Now make vbs files open with this association: outlook.exe /c IPM.Note.VirusAlert An email gets sent. That's innovative.  And a total waste of resources, of course, but innovative.   2) The virus is still there. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 9:32 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: An Innovative Way To Combat E-Mail Viruses   I thought this was interesting...feed back? Drawbacks? From: Mark Minasi's Windows 2000/NT Newsletter Issue #17 September 2001 An Innovative Way To Combat E-Mail Viruses I recently whined aloud in the e-mail newsletter that I do for Windows 2000 Magazine (get it free at http://www.win2000mag.net/email/#) about how bloody tired I was that people are still opening attachments without looking closely at them.  Reader Brian Davis had a great idea:  redefine the VBS, Javascript, REG and similar files so that the default when you click on them is not to EXECUTE... but to OPEN them.  Brilliant and, like most great ideas, should have obvious from the beginning!  You can, of course, still run scripts -- but you must do it by right-clicking them and choosing "Execute" or "Run" instead of "Open."  Here's Brian's Regedit script to make this happen: REGEDIT4 <snipped> List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm