I appreciate your point - however I cannot open the worm within outlook because I have scripting turned off - I would explicitly need to save the email to disk and open it there. Like I say I use outlook because it is the corporate standard. You CAN lock down outlook so it will not run ANY outlook script worms past present and future (by not allowing it to use script or active content).
The only other option of course is to remove all outlook users from the mailing list - a little draconian in my opinion.
mark
-----Original Message----- From: Norbert Math [mailto:math@iem.kug.ac.at] Sent: 29 January 2002 12:44 To: pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Subject: RE: [PD] [CALL FOR ACTION] about worms and virusses
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