> >Sorry, I just felt the urge to say this. There is nothing particualarily
> >bad about Outlook Express, these various viruses require you to excute
> >attachments, and you can do that in any mail client.. If any other mail
> >client gets as popular as OE, then it will start to have viruses aimed at
> >it's address book too!
> Chris, I don't think he was bashing Outlook PER SE -- just the version
> number in question. There have been MANY MANY security fixes to OE since
> that release, which came with Internet Explorer FOUR a few years
> back. Even the granola OE that comes with IE 5 (v5.00.2314.1300) has been
> radically security-patched since release....
FWIW, one of the best ways to protect your email against virii is at the
server level.
My current job involves, among other things, administering a couple hundred
email domains, and I'm just appalled to see all the viruses that pass
through our system each and every day. There are a LOT of viruses out
there, and a LOT of people who have no scanning.
Of course, we've got our system set to block all VBS files, and we only
grudginly allow EXE's (we do scan them though).
And of course, in our own company, it was easy enough to just set VBS files
to auto-open with notepad rather than running via wscript, merely by
changing the default file association.
I'll try to keep this a little bit on-topic... Does this mailing list do
any sort of virus scanning? I know you can't post to the list unless you're
actually on the list, but any scanning going on?
Hopefully the folks on this list are bright enough that they know better
than to run any executables they receive via email...
Aaron
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