I tried to find an option in IE or OE for making attachments automatically
open and I couldn't find one. Would not be a good idea if there was such an
option.
With that in mind, hard to believe that so many will still open an unknown
attach. when it has the potential to do so much damage. Just say "no" to
that attachment.
My install of OE never automatically opened attachments. If there is
such a security checkmark to make, plese tell us where it is.
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel J. Mitchell" <DanielMitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 10:55 AM
Subject: RE: [OM] Virus Advice
| > I was of the understanding that those poor individuals using
| > Micro$oft-supplied email-programs were suffering from the
| > fact that said
| > program (as of factory default) would execute attachments when
| > opening the mail - without the user explicitly accessing the
| > attachment?
|
| Nope, not so. Any time the attachment has been run, it's because a user
has
| launched it.
|
| The reason Outlook can be exploited to send mail like this is because it
| provides more functionality than most mailers. If you use a bare-bones
| mailer like (say) pine, the chances of having issues with this sort of
virus
| are smaller. Not, by any means, impossible -- it would be easy enough to
| write a pine virus (executable-in-disguise, same as with Outlook; open
| .pinerc, find the addressbook, open a socket, send mail out to everyone
| containing your executable).
|
| It's just easy to drive Outlook from code, and there are a _lot_ of
Outlook
| installs out there -- si that's why virus writers pick on it. There are
| Eudora viruses in the world, you just don't hear about them because so few
| people use Eudora..
|
| -- dan
|
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