'The end-user must ultimately accept responsibility for the results of
opening unsolicited email attachments' - In a perfect world maybe.
Reality however is that we must accept that the end-user is an idiot and
do everything we can to protect them from themselves. We use desktop
anti-virus software, virus-scanning software at the gateway, rules-based
software at the gateway (eg no vbs attachments allowed in) and rules on
the mail server.
Cheers
Nick
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Dodd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 11 May 2001 03:19
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Homepage virus and Outlook Attachments
The end-user must ultimately accept responsibility for the results of
opening unsolicited email attachments. In a work environment, install
desktop level anti-virus protection as an additional layer and push
weekly updates during login. McAfee www.nai.com provides tools to
automate the process.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd Carew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 12:16 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Homepage virus and Outlook Attachments
> Hello all,
>
> glad to see everyone has survived this little bug. We did well with
> it as well. I was able to get around all of my filters and rules both
> with
Imail
> and IMgate through no fault of either software package.
>
> I am running outlook 2k on all of my workstations. One of our people
> forwarded me the virus email and because outlook wrapped it into
winmail.dat
> the filters didn't catch it.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on how to get around that?
>
> Thanks
> Todd
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Glen Harvy
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 6:20 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Homepage
>
>
> Damn I like Webshield SMTP :-)
>
> An email from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, addressed to
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> , with subject [IMail Forum] Homepage was
> infected with the virus VBS/SST.gen@MM in attachment
> homepage.HTML.vbs.
The
> infected attachment has been cleaned and quarantined.(from APOLLO IP
> 209.59.28.53 user SYSTEM running WebShield 4.5 '_')
>
>
>
>
> At 06:21 10/05/2001, you wrote:
> > > I believe there was a virus in the attachment of this original
> > > message?
> >
> >Yes, there was. Do NOT open it, unless you'd like to spread the
> >virus around further! :)
> >
> >
> >--
> > -Scott
> >
> >Declude: Anti-virus and Anti-spam solutions for IMail.
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