[mso] Re: This is tooo funny...
- From: "Greg Chapman" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:05:24 -0500
Excellent story and terrible experience!! That one was akin to the old saw
about sending IT an email to tell them the email server is down...only
more frustrating, I'm sure.
There was one thing I caught in your message, though, which I thought
ought to receive a little more attention, especially for Outlook and OE
users: Anti-virus software is completely reactive and, to date, can only
reliably protect you against known (or, thought of another way,
historical) attacks. The heuristics engines in use are at about the same
level of maturity as these anti-spam tools. Thus, they are largely
unreliable, complex and not likely to protect you from the latest exploit.
And, as you can see from today's viral messaging making its rounds, AV
software has been unable to stop the incident from ever starting. Today's
sufferers are users who didn't patch their Internet Explorer 2 years ago
and probably had very little interaction with the virus before launching
it from their systems.
The best protection is personal diligence on the points of personal
behavior, patching discipline AND anti-virus.
Thanks for sharing the soap box!
Greg Chapman
http://www.mousetrax.com
"Counting in binary is as easy as 01, 10, 11!
With thinking this clear, is coding really a good idea?"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Carneal
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 4:33 PM
> To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [mso] Re: This is tooo funny...
>
>
> right off as long as I am diligent in maintaining the
> updates. My email
> went from about 15 - 19 per day to roughly 600, with about 90
> of that I do
> want.
>
> Clickity-click and I am rid of the rest. Four seconds, not a problem.
>
> Wow, my interpreter was mad. Should I say "hell haith no fury
> like a woman
> scorned"? It is true most of the time. (I wonder how many
> ISPs will block
> this one?)
>
> Ok, I off my rant and won't comment again- no point in making
> this another
> long thread with nothing accomplished.
>
> Robert
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