Hello: I have a question about IE exploit viruses, the type that somehow automatically, and without any intervention on the part of the operator, somehow call MSIE to open and run an attached virus program so as to to cause one's machine to get infected simply as a result of opening an email infected with a virus of this type.
For those who use Outlook, or Outlook Express as their email client and MSIE as their browser program, it would seem to me that, theoretically, one could easily protect himself from viruses of this type simply by renaming MSIE to something else before running Outlook or OE to download and read his emails. After the operator has completed reading his emails and after he has exited from Outlook or OE he could then re-rename his browser program back to what it is supposed to be named. The simple renaming of MSIE to something else would theoretically prevent the infected email from being able to call MSIE. An operator opening an infected email of this type would probably just get a stupid Windows error message in a pop-up window saying something like "Windows was unable to find Internet Exporer, blah, blah, blah....". Then the operator just closes the stupid pop-up window with the stupid error message. Next he just simply deletes the infected email because he knows he had just received a very good clue by the display of the stupid error message that the email contains a virus of this type. According to my understanding, one could save his machine from getting infected by viruses of this type simply by re-naming MSIE to something else. Is my understanding on that matter right or wrong? Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
