[arachne] Re: illegal attachments?

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On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 03:17 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> 
> On Sun, November 9, 2008 1:14 am, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> 
> >
> > OK, but is this really necessary?  Don't most people examine batch files
> > to determine what they do before they run them?  Also, don't most people
> > do a virus scan and a spyware scan of ".exe" and ".com" files before
> > they run them?
> 
> 
> Nope. They don't. Most people don't even know what the file extensions
> mean. Batch files, what batch files? Anything sent as an attachment is
> suspect to the ISP's because people for the most part are ignorant. Email
> is a can of worms for ISP's, rife with infection and trouble.
> 
> Sam Ewalt
> 
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <sheywood@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Sent: 11/8/2008 9:47 PM
> >> Subject: [arachne] illegal attachments?

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email is not a can of worms for people who use safe 
email clients.  ISP's should just simply warn all of 
their customers about the dangers of using MicroSoft 
Outlook or any other email client that is notorious 
for opening and running executable attachments 
automatically and without warning.

Sam Heywood  

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