If this area is like most of the others that rate content, the rating is automatic and based on the number of DIFFERENT people posting to the thread... It has nothing to do with the actual content.
Ah, but here's a question for you... After opening 100 or so attachments but having to first wade through a dialog asking "Are you sure you want to open this because a big, bad virus might reach out and bite you in the butt?", how many people will actually READ the message and not start assuming that clicking on the "YES" button is just another step in the process of opening an attachment? My experience with human nature says the number will be VERY low. Anybody disagree?
...if you're going to combat email viruses by filtering the subject lines (or content, or whatever). Until someone comes up with a way to actually propagate a virus in the MESSAGE BODY, the number one best way to combat email viruses is to EDUCATE THE USERS about opening strange attachments. My users know the dangers. I hope they will act accordingly when threatened. I know the one user in our school who DID receive the ILOVEYOU acted properly and deleted the file.
As the network administrator for a public high school, I have to agree with the view on how users are trained. However, training regarding email and attachments was a breeze when the Melissa virus came out. I simply broadcast to the whole faculty the basic rule that you never open an attachment you didn't ask for initially. I also pointed out the sad fact that sometimes even when you DO ask for a file, it still can arrive infected (usully with a Word Macro virus). The result of this training... One user recieved the I Love You virus, but deleted it without opening it. No one was infected.
These VBS files aren't embedded. They're off all by themselves. They aren't embedded into the email message any more than a.JPG file is embedded into the email.
I'm not that familiar with Linux, being a MS user since DOS 2.0. This latest garbage is run using Visual Basic Scripting... Does Linux run VBS as well? If not, then it's no WONDER Linux machines were spared! And I believe that Linux will start to be attacked by viruses as soon as Linux is installed on enough large systems that the attack will make it in the newspapers. When you give the code to everybody, you're begging for people to exploit it.
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Now it's a "4".
If this area is like most of the others that rate content, the rating is automatic and based on the number of DIFFERENT people posting to the thread... It has nothing to do with the actual content.
Ah, but here's a question for you... After opening 100 or so attachments but having to first wade through a dialog asking "Are you sure you want to open this because a big, bad virus might reach out and bite you in the butt?", how many people will actually READ the message and not start assuming that clicking on the "YES" button is just another step in the process of opening an attachment? My experience with human nature says the number will be VERY low. Anybody disagree?
...if you're going to combat email viruses by filtering the subject lines (or content, or whatever). Until someone comes up with a way to actually propagate a virus in the MESSAGE BODY, the number one best way to combat email viruses is to EDUCATE THE USERS about opening strange attachments. My users know the dangers. I hope they will act accordingly when threatened. I know the one user in our school who DID receive the ILOVEYOU acted properly and deleted the file.
As the network administrator for a public high school, I have to agree with the view on how users are trained. However, training regarding email and attachments was a breeze when the Melissa virus came out. I simply broadcast to the whole faculty the basic rule that you never open an attachment you didn't ask for initially. I also pointed out the sad fact that sometimes even when you DO ask for a file, it still can arrive infected (usully with a Word Macro virus).
The result of this training... One user recieved the I Love You virus, but deleted it without opening it. No one was infected.
These VBS files aren't embedded. They're off all by themselves. They aren't embedded into the email message any more than a .JPG file is embedded into the email.
I'm not that familiar with Linux, being a MS user since DOS 2.0. This latest garbage is run using Visual Basic Scripting... Does Linux run VBS as well? If not, then it's no WONDER Linux machines were spared! And I believe that Linux will start to be attacked by viruses as soon as Linux is installed on enough large systems that the attack will make it in the newspapers. When you give the code to everybody, you're begging for people to exploit it.