> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron DuFresne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Thursday, 31 July 2003 10:20 a.m.
> To: Bojan Zdrnja
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Avoiding being a good admin - 
> was DCOM RPC exploit (dcom.c) 
> 
> Cool, perimiter security and forcing users to text only based e-mail
> clients liek e-mail was intended <grin>.

See Paul's post about recommending that to a dean, VP or whatever else.

> Eucation works poorly.  Educate you users and then 30 minutes later some
> of thm will go to their everything-AND-the-kitchen-sink desktop OS, click
> on that same mass mailed exe you just told them not to click on, and
> reopen the need to once again re-educte your userbase cycle.  Of course 9

Then you are a bad teacher. A good teacher will deliver that knowledge to
his students in a way that will let it stay in their minds.

> out of 10 times it;s going to be one of the upper mgt folks that pushed
> for the employee education project that does the uncondoned clicking of
> that exe...

We can fight against that with other layers of security. However, only
education will raise security awareness.

Regards,

Bojan Zdrnja

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