For example, a couple of weeks ago I installed a friend's OCR software for testing and it installed a TSR along with it: even when the OCR program wasn't running, the freaking thing tried to contact its makers.
Yes, well, have you considered it was trying to look for a new/updated version of itself? :-) Not all "phone home" software is malicious.
The firewall also quarantines any suspicious mail attachments, but as mail client I use good ole' Navigator 4.54 anyway. Some of those
You should switch to Thunderbird. I finally did last year and it's great.
attachments aim for weaknesses in OE, and my Navigator is simply too old
to understand all that fancy stuff.
Not true! In fact, your version has a documented vulnerability!
A program I can wholeheartedly reccommend in this context is Robin Keir's K9, that uses a Bayes algorithm to weed out spam (and things like
Yes, a Bayesian filter is built into Thunderbird.
Is the rest of the world as ridden by those "dialers" as we are around here?
No, that was a very old thing back in 1994-1996 and I don't think Americans have seen them since.
Disclaimer: I *am* a security engineer during the day ;-) -- Jim Leonard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.oldskool.org/ Want to help an ambitious games project? http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/
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