hello,
as you have noticed, the myparty worm made its way to the pd mailing list despite the virus scanner i have installed - the virus was sent out before i got the new virus identification from sophos.
because obviously the idetifications are released after a worm spreads in the wild a virus scanner can not offer much security when new species are coming out.
therefore i kindly ask you to a less exploitable program then outlook - if you use outlook your security updates may still come too late as it was the case with my mail scanner ...
norbert
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, mark wrote:
TO ALL PPL. USING OUTLUCK :
switch to another email client. use netscape, eudora or whatever. but dont use outluck. damn, is it really so hard to do that ??
For a lot of people it is a corporate standard and they HAVE to use it. That said if you apply the latest patches from microsoft (choose "windows update" in internet explorer - it doesn't send info to microsoft so do it even if you have a pirate copy) then you won't have any of these issues - it blocks access to attachments and scripts so you have to make a real effort to open them.
cheers
mark