Back with the nimda virus, the attachment was a .exe but the MIME type was set to audio/wave. This causes WMP or other media player to automatically open the file effectively auto-executing the program. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 11:00 PM Subject: Re: OT: Virus
> --- Sisyphus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes - this is where a major part of the problem > > lies. How does one configure > > the system so that attachments will not open > > *unless* clicked on ? Afaik my > > configuration will not allow attachments to open > > until they are clicked - > > yet this is obviously not the case, as they did open > > ( or, at least, opened > > an IE download box ) but they were at no stage > > 'clicked on'. > > I have heard that it helps if you configure your > system such that it does not execute random script > files. FOr example, I have my system set so that any > .vbs file is opened in Notepad. If I want to execute > it (unlikely in my case) I have to right click and > choose 'execute'. This is merely a Windows file-type > set default action, no real cofiguration changes made. > In addition, I'm not sure that this would stop much. > I definitely don't have this setting for .exe files. > But as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't hurt to have > the extra precaution. > > > What sort of kindergarten genius devises a system > > that needs a patch for > > something that should be easily handled by user > > configuration ? > > Uhh, is the answer Microsoft..? ;) > > ===== > ------------------------------------ > Jeffrey Hottle > nkuvu at yahoo dot com > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. > http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users > > _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users
