Thus spake Dennis T Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, circa 10/10/2002 2:05 PM: > Forget Virex, the prevention is even easier. Don't open any attachments > until you verify from the recipient that it is legit. [...] klez [...] is > only a Windows problem
I have no anti-virus software on my machine at all, and I'm not very concerned. But I wish someone would come out with a good package for OS X. I can't help remembering that at various times, email programs for Windows -- notably, but not exclusively, Microsoft Outlook -- have been vulnerable to infection WITHOUT the user opening an attachment. Merely reading the message, or, worse, merely receiving it, was enough. There are also threats that attack PCs directly through their network connections (Code Red, Nimda, Bugbear). Since I don't understand OS X nearly as well as I understood OS 9, I am less comfortable leaving myself vulnerable to such attacks. They don't exist today, but may in the future. For all we know, Microsoft Entourage has a gaping security hole someone has just discovered and is preparing to exploit in an attack. peter -- 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/>
