On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 at 21:29:57 -0600, Mary Bull wrote: M>>> How thoroughly do you filter, so that emails apparently from M>>> Amazon _cannot_ be spoofed?
>> There is that... but we have to put a level of trust in someplace... MB> I like to get my "ads" from Amazon. However, if they sent me an MB> attachment, I would become quite wary. Y MB> I would save it to my Desktop and run F-Secure, TDS-3, SpyBot and MB> Trojan Remover over it, before opening it. MB> And then I would expect F-Secure to catch any "archived" mal-code that MB> did try to pop up when I opened it. MB> But, my first line of defense is the Mail Dispatcher. MB> I download no e-mail the address of which I don't recognize or which I MB> am not expecting. MB> I hope that I am not too naive and trusting. I don't know what further MB> I can do to protect myself. MB> I do not click on any attachment that my sister who uses Outlook MB> Express-HTML sends me, unless she has sent a previous mail saying what MB> it is. I read her mails in plain text, also. MB> And I long ago stopped her from sending me those commercial greeting MB> cards. I told her I was deleting them unopened. MB> She hasn't cut me out of her will, yet, so I reckon I'm managing okay MB> even though she uses a client I don't trust. :) -- Best regards, David Using The Bat! v3.0.2.10 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
