Unless of course
Step1: Is nearly impossible
Step 2: Ok yes you can do this, but then of course you must make sure that
people don't change it back!!!
Step 3: You use these types of scripts for administration purposes which is
becoming increasingly popular to do.
Jason P. Wilcox
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From: A.T.Z.
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Sent: 5/12/00 2:31 AM
Subject: Re: Why Anti-Virus Software Cannot Stop the Spread of Email Worms
Don't think this is firewall stuff, but the solution is very easy.
Step1: teach users to think before click
To make sure they don't take also the following steps:
Step2: Disable automatic running scripts in e-mail (IE5 etc)
Step3: associate vbs js etc with notepad
Solved! No AV needed to do this job.
Bye,
B.
At 18:08 11-5-00 -0400, Matt Curtin wrote:
>After seeing the flood of mail about the latest bit of malware and how
>to filter and to disable it, I decided that it's time to spell out the
>problem in some detail and to make a call for sanity.
>
> Abstract:
>
> With the attention received by the ``ILOVEYOU'' worm that floated
> around the Internet in the early part of May 2000, many people are
> wondering why their anti-virus software didn't prevent them from
> becoming infected and how they can protect themselves in the
> future. Here we argue that this approach to the problem, though
> popular, is fatally flawed and simply cannot work.
>
>http://www.interhack.net/pubs/email-trojan/
>
>--
>Matt Curtin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/
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