Hello Anne, Sunday, October 19, 2003, 2:25:21 PM, you wrote:
AW> On Sunday 19 Oct 2003 8:45 pm, Charlie M. wrote: >> October 19, 2003 01:18 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: >> <snip> >> >> As an aside, doesn't the free Zone Alarm install include some sort >> of script blocking for e-mail, or is that only for that infection >> transport agent that comes with Windows as an e-mail client? AW> I've used ZA in the past as a personal firewall. I'm not aware of it AW> dealing with script blocking for email. Maybe that's a new addition. Proxomitron and DNSkong are much better, and are free. >> Also I >> find it amazing that an anti-virus app can't freeze a virus at the >> door when the message first enters the queue. Is she running with >> java and scripting on or off in e-mail and newsgroups? Turning them >> off may actually help somewhat. >> AW> I did look at that. There is a module there for mail protection, but AW> it seems to be entirely aimed at Outlook users. A few developers are adding features, and it is almost always for M$ apps ONLY. Yech! AW> My sister-in-law works in a hospital. She told me the other week AW> that they had had all new systems put in. It was only two days AW> old when it went down - virused. The whole department, that AW> hadn't even completed transferring their data. Not only that, it AW> took down every hospital in the Leeds and Bradford district. And AW> - they were down for a week. AW> Our taxes pay the guys who put in that system! My sympathies. They probably thought they'd install the protection later. :-) I've seen places do that. -- rikona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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