When I received the infected emails in my version of OE/5.50, my inbox indicated the
message had an attachment. Perhaps it is how I have mine set up but when I receive a
message with an attachment, OE tells me so in my inbox. Both of these messages showed
an attachment in my inbox, and with an unknown address, went straight to my trash
file. my wife uses Netscape for her email and Netscape defaults to a preview pane,
which opens each email when you highlight it in the inbox. I think OE sets up that
way as well, but I find that annoying as well as dangerous and disable that function
immediately upon installation of the program.
Perhaps it is how each uses configures their mail reader to handle attachments?
And yeah, I know I need to update my Norton....I'm using an old version of System
Works, which I think came bundled with NAV 4.0. In fact, I need to get another AV
software package as my Compaq just does not get along real well with Norton. DLL
conflicts, etc......mainly in power management. Compaq's fix was to get McAfee!
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: OT:Virii (was Re:)
> John Glover wrote:
> >
> > But I assume you had to open the email to get infected? If it has an attachment, I
>do not even read the mail, just delete....but I suppose I need to update my Norton AV
>to get something that does do email now as well....
>
> But the email *didn't* have an obvious attachment - the virus was hidden
> in a .signature block.
>
> If you have a version of Norton AV that doesn't do email protection
> it must be very old. But I'd recommend getting a newer version,
> and setting up a proxy email server. Get firewall pretection, too,
> if you have an 'always on' internet connection (DSL, ISDN, etc.).
>
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