"Here's your attachment" ......

[Al_Havemann]

Re: \"Here\'s your attachment\" ......

I use an ancient mail program, Lotus cc:Mail. Yup!, from the dark ages, parts of it, like the router, still run in DOS.

It’s so stupid that it doesn’t know about HTML. It’s so stupid it can’t open an attachment directly, I have to save it first. There isn’t a worm out there that can get to it’s address book and it has a wonderful rules engine. No ActiveX controls (what’s that?), doesn’t know squat about Vbscript, can’t run an .EXE and HTML is just gibberish to it.

I love that old dog of a program.

If I do manage to get a worm (not bloody likely), it isn’t going to be able to do much because I uninstall (with great difficulty, thanks to Microsoft) Outlook Express so the only mail program is ccmail and there isn’t a spammer out there that can get to it.

And last, because I run all my applications inside a virtual machine that’s set to non-persistent mode, nothing sticks, it’s all gone on the next reboot unless I deliberately move data to a network server or to the system host drive. When to VM reboots, it’s back to day one.

Al

 

[snakebite]

Re: \"Here\'s your attachment\" ......

heres my version.
!000
worm alert
this will always be the first entry.
i have never gotten hit due to the fact i dump anything with a attachment i am not expecting and train popfile on all virii,worms,and trojans.




[ QUOTE ]
tygger said:
Just in case, for outlook express users, there's a little trick for alerting you if a virus has sent out emails from your address book by sending it directly back to you.
In OE's address book create this email contact:
email address: <illegaladdress
in the First (name) field type: *virus
in the Display field type: *virus-trap

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[James S]

Re: \"Here\'s your attachment\" ......

And yet, even with all these problems and continues continual attacks with attachments and worms and word document viruses. I received a word document unsolicited the other day that was important. A university was interested in purchasing a license for some of the software that I develop and sent to me a vendor form that I needed to fill out to make sure they could purchase from me. And you guessed it, a word document dropped into an email without any warning that it was real or that I was expecting it.

I filled it out for them, and I also chastised them for practicing such poor internet hygiene! As long as people continue to do stuff like that there will always be others who will take advantage of them.

And people as a group learn very slowly...