Thanks for the replies. To be sure, killing all inbound mail traffic from
a outlook user may seem extreme, but this customer is little concerned
about the "lack of communications". They are making a political and
technical statement. One exec told me "If Microsoft can't/won't fix
their security problems we will". Now, I take exception to the rich
home user statement. Fact is, these guys have the balls to do what
they need to do to secure their domain. I, once again, applaud these
people and wish more had the cojones to do the same. We, as
nation do not condone drunk driving, its endangers innocent people.
In my customers opinion so does outlook and Microsoft messaging
in general. They are fed up with the worms etc.
Thanks all for the replies.
M
At 12:39 PM 11/28/2001 -0800, Wil Cooley wrote:
Also Sprach Henry Sieff:
> Well.
> The theory is that Microsoft's products are vectors for infection via
> worms. This is true; but blocking based on mail client is a
> superficial solution compared with the much better ones already
> available. Once you are parsing the headers and taking action based
> upon those, why not use the Content-Type header instead. Same number
> of processor cycles to do the parsing and pattern matching, plus you
> are not cutting off communications.
>
> I know of almost no corporation where blocking all outlook-generated
> email would be an acceptable solution*; quite frankly, anyone who
> "applauds" this decision as a "solution" to the risks associated with
> Outlook is remiss. We don't allow any email client to send a .scr file
> to our domain; neither should anyone.
Maybe his client just doesn't want messages from Outlook users?
Maybe he's just a wealthy home-user that wants to pay someone to
do this for him?
Wil
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