"Leland V. Lammert" wrote: > > At 04:17 PM 10/12/99 , Trembicki-Guy, Ed wrote: > >When I saw that posting, it looked suspicious. I have Norton Anti-virus on > >my NT 4.0 laptop, and I ran live update to make sure I have the latest virus > >defintions. I then tried to examine the attachment, at which point Norton > >popped up and reported it as a virus. > >I highly recommend the Norton Anti-virus product. > > > >-Ed Trembicki-Guy > > Ed (et al), > > I agree that this posting was a problem, .. and the poster even apologized > immediately afterwards (turns out he was an innocent party). > > This begs a more significant question, however, .. WHAT ARE YOU DOING EVEN > CONSIDERING OPENING EXECUTIBLES, .. EXE *OR* VBS?? That is the biggest act > of stupidity on the 'Net today! Here we have a simple policy - NO > executable files are opened on ANY of our machines. If we ABSOLUTELY MUST > HAVE a file and trust the originator (which, as common sense must dictate, > nobody on this list is 'trusted' to THAT extent <g>), we transfer it to an > isolated machine first and test. > > There is just NO way to trust someone anywhere on the 'Net to be > conscientious, .. even with the best intentions, as in this case, they > often are innocent parties to virus spread. Only with valid signatures > (i.e. trusted vendors) is it even safe to consider opening executable content. > > Of course, .. those of you with Outlook have a problem before you open the > program <gd&r>!! There is also another simpler solution to this problem... Use Netscape on Solaris ! to read the email :-)) Sorry for this one... Bye. -- Dott. Sergio Rabellino Technical Staff Department of Computer Science University of Torino (Italy) Member of the Internet Society http://www.di.unito.it/~rabser Tel. +39-0116706701 Fax. +39-011751603 ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
