Microsoft has finally put an option into the latest version of Outlook Express
(v6) to suppress the opening/saving of email attachments. One of my systems at
home runs Win 2k Pro and we are constantly receiving emails from folks whose
email handlers have mail forwarding setup to forward email as an attachment.
-Alex
Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than Hardware gets faster!
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it
said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux." - Anonymous
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Bayard Coolidge USG wrote:
> > My concern today is that we have been at least partially affected by
> > this Code <color> virus ...
>
> You mean the Nimda worm/virus? ("Admin" spelled backwards.) This one is
> great. It attacks vulnerabilities in MS Outlook, MS IE, and MS IIS. It
> mass-emails itself automatically. It harvests email addresses from your
> system. It infects local executables. It sets itself to run at startup.
> In installs the "Guest" account with admin privileges. It shares your hard
> drive with the world. It scans the local IP subnet for vulnerable IIS
> systems (unpatched, or nailed by Code Red II and not fixed) and infects
> them.
>
> My personal recommendation is: If you use Microsoft products, shutdown the
> computer and don't turn it back on until you have replaced your Microsoft
> software with someone else's.
>
> --
> Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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