On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Leland V. Lammert wrote:
> At 04:17 PM 10/12/99 , Trembicki-Guy, Ed wrote:
This type of virus has been predicted starting in 1996, when Microsoft
announced certain features and plans they had. At this stage most new
viruses are of this type. This type of virus has also decreased the time
for a virus to spread through out the whole world to 2 days where it used
to be 3 months, 18 months ago.
The best idea is to educate users to -not- run anything without the
administrators say so, and the administrator should by default say no.
Those people that do use unsafe products like Microsoft Outlook would do
themselves a favor by setting their Security to the maximum level it can
go and then to remember to check that things like VBS, JavaScript and
ActiveX is disabled.
Yes, I know there is no JavaScript viruses yet.
> >I highly recommend the Norton Anti-virus product.
I do not agree :-))
> This begs a more significant question, however, .. WHAT ARE YOU DOING EVEN
> CONSIDERING OPENING EXECUTIBLES, .. EXE *OR* VBS?? That is the biggest act
Very true.
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