Malware (Was: Re: (no subject))

[Craig White]

I've been doing this for a number of years now and I don't recall a
single instance when it was necessary for a user to get an attachment
that was of a type (exe, com, pif, bat, scr, vbs and there's some more).

In a world where users do what users do, they can't be trusted not to
blindly open things.

Yes, Outlook 2K3 and 2K will not allow them to open those files but you
can change the security settings to get around that.

Older versions of Outlook, etc. aren't likely to have all of the
safeguards in place.

Craig

On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 23:37 -0700, Kevin Brown wrote:
> Nothing wrong with an exe getting through.  I, on occasion, send things 
> to myself that are small executables (maybe its a perl script wrapped up 
> with par, or a self executing zip file).  Outlook, being the jacked up 
> program that it is, just flat out blocks them.
> 
> Blindly blocking all .exe, .zip, .<xxx> attachments is just an idiotic 
> knee-jerk reaction.  Much like banning violent video games because a few 
> of the millions that play commit an act of excessive violence.
> 
> > I think that if an exe attachment gets through an e-mail system to the
> > end user, the battle is already lost. Whether they opened it or not is
> > sort of immaterial. Users will do whatever users do.
> 
> >> One of my clients got an email to them from them and it had an .exe 
> >> attachment.  Fortunately, they called me before opening it.  Same deal, 
> >> though.
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