Forget Virex, the prevention is even easier. Don't open any attachments until you verify from the recipient that it is legit.
I'm perpetually getting klez virus generated email (klez is nasty... It steals email addresses) and so I get mail sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with horrible text like "You enjoy this funny game" [sic]. So obviously, I'm not going to open that... Not that it would matter since it is only a Windows problem, but clearly there's someone who was stupid enough to open it. On 10/10/02 2:18 AM, "Paul Bentley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know that at present there are no known viruses for X but having seen the > havoc caused by Bugbear I'd like to be ready should one appear. So what is > the optimum way of setting up Virex with X? It seems to me Virex is an > 'after the infection' solution at present as it only scans at login and then > does nothing at all unless you invoke it, so presumably if there were to be > a Bugbear variant for X attached to one of my emails in Entourage neither > Virex nor I would necessarily know I had email infected with it until it > scanned at my next login. (And even then it may not. I've had one of these > attachments and scanned it with Virex and it didn't report anything amiss). > In the meantime of course I could easily have been unfortunate enough to > activate it just by previewing the thing. Or have I missed something? Can I > automate Virex within Terminal or through AppleScript to scan more > pro-actively? Presumably having all attachments saved to one folder, then > setting up a regular scan of this folder is the way to go. > > Any advice on this anyone? > > pb > -- Dennis T Cheung | [EMAIL PROTECTED] This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
