At 11:19 12-5-00 -0500, Jason Wilcox wrote:
> Unless of course
>
>Step1: Is nearly impossible
Most users are intelligent enough to learn something new.
>Step 2: Ok yes you can do this, but then of course you must make sure that
>people don't change it back!!!
Most of our users can't. I
You could also try what happens if you rename this wscript thing. Remember
this problem does not apply to W95. Don't see much reasons to "upgrade" to
W98. The special features are not good enough. Glad we didn't upgrade to
W98 and more recent versions of Outlook.
>Step 3: You use these types of scripts for administration purposes which is
>becoming increasingly popular to do.
No we don't.
B.
>Jason P. Wilcox
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: A.T.Z.
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: 5/12/00 2:31 AM
>Subject: Re: Why Anti-Virus Software Cannot Stop the Spread of Email Worms
>
>Don't think this is firewall stuff, but the solution is very easy.
>
>Step1: teach users to think before click
>
>To make sure they don't take also the following steps:
>Step2: Disable automatic running scripts in e-mail (IE5 etc)
>Step3: associate vbs js etc with notepad
>
>Solved! No AV needed to do this job.
>
>Bye,
>
>B.
>
>
>At 18:08 11-5-00 -0400, Matt Curtin wrote:
> >After seeing the flood of mail about the latest bit of malware and how
> >to filter and to disable it, I decided that it's time to spell out the
> >problem in some detail and to make a call for sanity.
> >
> > Abstract:
> >
> > With the attention received by the ``ILOVEYOU'' worm that floated
> > around the Internet in the early part of May 2000, many people are
> > wondering why their anti-virus software didn't prevent them from
> > becoming infected and how they can protect themselves in the
> > future. Here we argue that this approach to the problem, though
> > popular, is fatally flawed and simply cannot work.
> >
> >http://www.interhack.net/pubs/email-trojan/
> >
> >--
> >Matt Curtin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/
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