Until it becomes mainstream to do so at which point the viruses you mention would be rewritten to steal the authentication info from clients that save that information (as the mass majority of people do which is what the viruses target) and then use that port 587.
It is a good stop-gap solution for a specific network, but IMHO, it's not a great solution for everyone altogether because the virus writers would just rewrite their viruses.
I think it's common that people try to solve the symptom (disinfect the individual computer) rather than the problem (security changes), so that's something that these corporations should consider. I also believe that there is no single solution to solve this one -- it'll take a combination of solutions to really "solve" it including but not limited to AV, network security, and user education.
The original challenge was to find five that were created by Microsoft by scratch. This doesn't mean that it's original.
I can't speak to whether Word or Excel actually were written by Microsoft from scratch, but just because they're based on another product doesn't necessarily mean that it can't be written from scratch by Microsoft.
Of course... spammers usually attack the mass majority, and I don't see the mass majority setting up their mail servers this way, so it very well may work for those who do it.
Although, I must admit that I won't be setting this up on my mail servers since I would find it awefully annoying that mail would have to fail once and be retried before I could get it.
The digital key idea has a large downside -- viruses/trojans will likely start stealing those keys and sending them to their master who will then use them for sending spam. Or the malware could use the keys they find themselves automagically to send spam directly from the infected user's system.
It isn't as simple as banning all emails with stupid images.
The images change and are often generated on-the-fly, so checksums or hashes can't always uniquely identify spam images. It becomes very troublesome determining if an email with an image attached is spam especially recently with many image based spam emails containing lots of junk text that is randomly pasted in from various places and nothing else to create a filter on. OCR is one of the best ways I have found to handle image based spam. Even still, it has trouble with some of the obfuscated images.
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Until it becomes mainstream to do so at which point the viruses you mention would be rewritten to steal the authentication info from clients that save that information (as the mass majority of people do which is what the viruses target) and then use that port 587. It is a good stop-gap solution for a specific network, but IMHO, it's not a great solution for everyone altogether because the virus writers would just rewrite their viruses. I think it's common that people try to solve the symptom (disinfect the individual computer) rather than the problem (security changes), so that's something that these corporations should consider. I also believe that there is no single solution to solve this one -- it'll take a combination of solutions to really "solve" it including but not limited to AV, network security, and user education.
You're dreaming -- MS products attempt to only work with IE
The original challenge was to find five that were created by Microsoft by scratch. This doesn't mean that it's original. I can't speak to whether Word or Excel actually were written by Microsoft from scratch, but just because they're based on another product doesn't necessarily mean that it can't be written from scratch by Microsoft.
I wonder how Fox Mulder pulled it off, does he even speak French?
to heck with that... I'm not mowing -- less chance of anyone wanting to sell me anything.
Of course... spammers usually attack the mass majority, and I don't see the mass majority setting up their mail servers this way, so it very well may work for those who do it.
Although, I must admit that I won't be setting this up on my mail servers since I would find it awefully annoying that mail would have to fail once and be retried before I could get it.
Until a different OS has market dominance, I highly doubt any browser other than IE will gain market dominance.
The digital key idea has a large downside -- viruses/trojans will likely start stealing those keys and sending them to their master who will then use them for sending spam. Or the malware could use the keys they find themselves automagically to send spam directly from the infected user's system.
It isn't as simple as banning all emails with stupid images.
The images change and are often generated on-the-fly, so checksums or hashes can't always uniquely identify spam images.
It becomes very troublesome determining if an email with an image attached is spam especially recently with many image based spam emails containing lots of junk text that is randomly pasted in from various places and nothing else to create a filter on.
OCR is one of the best ways I have found to handle image based spam. Even still, it has trouble with some of the obfuscated images.