-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 October 19, 2003 01:18 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: <snip> > > Thanks for an opportunity to join a rant Anne. (-; > > > > The sad part is that so many people will be taken in by such > > transparent "social engineering" crap. I spend more time de-worming > > infected Windows boxes than I do at anything else, and I'm not even > > trying to make a living at it. > > My daughter gets her email through Mozilla on windows98. She > carefully deletes everything that she doesn't recognise as genuine > mail. She runs antivirus and keeps it up to date. Still she keeps > getting virused emails in from the people who are on a mailing group > that she must use - the av software tells her it's there, but it's > too late. They can't fully activate, of course, under Mozilla, as > they can't launch the appropriate M$ apps to do it, but they still > manage to corrupt several files each time. The cab files are always > corrupted, and so is a java file. Occasionally there's one or two > more - this time there were two downloaded zip files corrupted.
I'm with you. The one exception to the "all the traffic will bear" rule I mentioned is people that I know don't do silly things. Like using Lookout Infect for e-mail. Those are people that I just sympathize with and help as I'm able. As an aside, doesn't the free Zone Alarm install include some sort of script blocking for e-mail, or is that only for that infection transport agent that comes with Windows as an e-mail client? Also I find it amazing that an anti-virus app can't freeze a virus at the door when the message first enters the queue. Is she running with java and scripting on or off in e-mail and newsgroups? Turning them off may actually help somewhat. > Quite apart from the time I spend on this, it makes me very angry that > she takes every precaution a non-geek can be expected to take, and > yet still she suffers this regularly. As to where they come from - I > think without exception they have come from people who send their > mails through their work account, in local hospitals! > > Anne If that's the case, and since we aren't able to track down and keelhaul the author of the mal-ware, we should string up the sysadmins at those institutions. Or at least the users that are clicking everything in site at the facility. Or both. <vbeg> Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 13:36:41 up 29 days, 2:59, 1 user, load average: 0.24, 0.31, 0.30 The only rose without thorns is friendship. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/kunFG11CaRuZZSIRAmBZAJ9DaLxgIOSW9z0mSZCKEERpDNIjrwCfSdo1 GGTqBVeogksHg2X+c374hTo= =sekL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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