Thanks a ton Suresh. A small utility is available at the address given
by you and I have sent it to the friends to clean their systems. I will
also help them install/use peagasus/eudora - they are using netscape for
the time-being.
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
> [linux-delhi crosspost trimmed]
>
> Sudhir Gandotra rearranged electrons thusly:
>
> > I have received mails with the additional mail coming with an attached
> > file named "zipped_files.EXE"
> > I know it does not harm me in linux, but perhaps I can warn the sender
> > about it and help him overcome the problem.
> > Pointers/tools to help the matter will be of great help.
>
> http://www.symantec.com/avcenter - lots about viruses - and virus hoaxes.
>
> Of course, the best advice you can give him is to ditch outlook (all variants,
> from express to 2000) and switch to something safer, like Pegasus Mail / Eudora
> Lite / Eudora Pro 3.x (the 4.x and 5.x versions suck bad) ...
>
> That is, any MUA that doesn't go around trying to execute every vbscript it
> sees embedded in a mail.
>
> However, if he goes and clicks on an attachment, only god (or, for the moment,
> an anti-virus prog updated on a weekly / fortnightly basis) can save him.
> Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot> org
> EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
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