Re: OT: M$ Outlook Virus

2001-05-12 Thread will trillich
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 10:58:17AM -0400, Steve Barr wrote: > Searching through the archives I found this message. Exactly what I want to > accomplish, but I can't get it to work. > > I installed procmail and copied the recipe to /etc/procmailrc. Then I sent > myself a test message, the attachme

RE: OT: M$ Outlook Virus

2001-05-12 Thread Steve Barr
Searching through the archives I found this message. Exactly what I want to accomplish, but I can't get it to work. I installed procmail and copied the recipe to /etc/procmailrc. Then I sent myself a test message, the attachment still came though as .vbs. If I copy /etc/procmailrc to ~/.procmai

Re: OT: M$ Outlook Virus

2001-02-13 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Colin Cashman (on Tue, 13 Feb 2001 01:35:57PM -0500): > I can see the sign hanging on the walls of Microsoft: > "Security, Standards, Sensibility: Choose Two." two? i think the siign rather says: "do one and we'll fire you." martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL P

Re: OT: M$ Outlook Virus

2001-02-13 Thread Shell Hung
> can someone give me anything that micro$oft ever did which makes > sense, is secure, and abides to standards??? haha.. It should be M$ help... You can select from ton of question, and you can never find your answer.. I may say the only answer is 'contact with our support'.. That's make sense..

Re: OT: M$ Outlook Virus

2001-02-13 Thread Colin Cashman
> can someone give me anything that micro$oft ever did which makes > sense, is secure, and abides to standards??? *chuckle* I can see the sign hanging on the walls of Microsoft: "Security, Standards, Sensibility: Choose Two." ;)

Re: OT: M$ Outlook Virus

2001-02-13 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach William Leese (on Tue, 13 Feb 2001 01:38:16PM +0100): > "An Internet-based email worm that masquerades as a picture of tennis star > Anna Kournikova" :) we have it on campus. it's nasty. however, it's easy to disinfect and i was fortunate enough to react immediately to the first occur

Re: OT: M$ Outlook Virus

2001-02-13 Thread brian moore
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:41:35AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 03:46:11PM +0100, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > > while it is tru you can remove most scriptin support with removin the > > microsoft scripting host, what if you're a developer ? Or you're environment > > requires yo

Re: OT: M$ Outlook Virus

2001-02-13 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 03:46:11PM +0100, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > while it is tru you can remove most scriptin support with removin the > microsoft scripting host, what if you're a developer ? Or you're environment > requires you to be able to run scripts ? I surprised no one has thought of this.

Re: OT: M$ Outlook Virus

2001-02-13 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > while it is tru you can remove most scriptin support > > with removin the microsoft scripting host, what if > > you're a developer ? Or you're environment requires > > you to be able to run scripts ? Use a different e-mail client... ;-) That's not too difficult to do, unlike suggesting that pe

Re: OT: M$ Outlook Virus

2001-02-13 Thread Colin Cashman
> while it is tru you can remove most scriptin support with removin the > microsoft scripting host, what if you're a developer ? Or you're environment > requires you to be able to run scripts ? Then you have a handful of choices. 1. Run a virus scanner, and make sure you update it EVERY DAY (even

RE: OT: M$ Outlook Virus

2001-02-13 Thread Joris Lambrecht
13, 2001 3:41 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: OT: M$ Outlook Virus > William Leese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > can someone tell me why an email client needs > > visual basic scripting and java/script support when > > it is obviously a high secur

Re: OT: M$ Outlook Virus

2001-02-13 Thread Hall Stevenson
> William Leese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > can someone tell me why an email client needs > > visual basic scripting and java/script support when > > it is obviously a high security risk? Outlook Express is actually a "module" or subset of Internet Explorer. It would be somewhat unreasonable

Re: OT: M$ Outlook Virus

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Shutko
William Leese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > can someone tell me why an email client needs visual basic scripting and > java/script support when it is obviously a high security risk? Because it was easier to leave them in than to take them out? That's the problem with writing reusable components

OT: M$ Outlook Virus

2001-02-13 Thread William Leese
Just for anyone who still dual boots that evil OS ;) "An Internet-based email worm that masquerades as a picture of tennis star Anna Kournikova" "spreading twice as fast as the Love Bug". "The worm comes in an email with the subject line "Here you have, ;o)" and an attachment called AnnaKourn