Re: Hope you all are ready for SoBig
- From: Jim Harrison <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 06:07:42 -0700
Agreed; especially in technical forums.
Anything that deserves illustration beyond ASCII characters is best left to
attachments.
I configure my "public" mail readers to render and compose in plain text only.
This allows me to concentrate on the problem, not the pretty backgrounds and
fonts some folks find interesting.
Also, if you never render HTML in your preview or actual reading windows, you
won't help the spammer / worm distribution efforts that depend on them.
Jim Harrison
MCP(NT4, W2K), A+, Network+, PCG
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On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 18:59:39 -0700
"cismic" <cismic@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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Well some common sense on the receiving of mail.
1. I don't care about all the pretty graphics that arrive via mail.
A. When you get one of those in your in box and one of the graphics
has an ip address associated with it that data is sent back to
some
server out there informing it has a valid email address. Not in
that sense
but, someone can harvest the web log where the graphic resides
and corralate
that back to a valid email.
B. I also setup my reg to only read as plain text and don't allow
auto response:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\Options\Mail]
"Message RTF Format"=dword:00000001
"EnableLogging"=dword:00000000
"Receipt Response"=dword:00000001
"Hangup after Spool"=dword:00000000
"EditorPreference"=dword:00020000
"AdHocReviewBehavior"=dword:00000001
"ReadAsPlain"=dword:00000001
C. Some simple changes to how *.pifs are opened including *.scr's
should go a long way.
1. Yup set explorer to open unknown files with notpad is one
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown\shell\Open\Command]
@="notepad.exe %1"
2. Add the following to a reg file (back things up first
before applying)
and this will associate *.pif and *.scr with notepad.
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.scr]
"Content Type"="text/plain"
@="txtfile"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.scr\ShellNew]
"NullFile"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pif]
"Content Type"="text/plain"
@="txtfile"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pif\ShellNew]
"NullFile"=""
2. Just another quick reference guide.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/05/virushunting/default.aspx
Joseph
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Harrison [mailto:jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 12:35 PM
To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
Subject: [isalist] Re: Hope you all are ready for SoBig
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That's why I love my RAV on Copmmunigate Pro; I got lots of RAV emails,
but the virus is stopped cold at the server.
Jim Harrison
MCP(NT4, W2K), A+, Network+, PCG http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver
http://isaserver.org/Jim_Harrison
http://isatools.org
Read the help, books and articles!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Bell" <rbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 11:05
Subject: [isalist] Hope you all are ready for SoBig
http://www.ISAserver.org
> It's back and with a vengeance. I have had over 500 hits in the last
> three hours. Filter all SMTP for .pif and .scr extensions, also for
> the file "your_details.zip" This latest round seems to be worse then
> the first.
>
>
> Richard Bell
> MIS Director
> Microfilm Services, Inc.
> www.msifla.net
> rbell@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>
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