Date:         Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:01:50 -0600
Reply-To:     tom ring <taring@TARING.ORG>
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From:         tom ring <taring@TARING.ORG>
Organization: Tippen Ringware
Subject:      Re: Strange messages-- infected file
Comments: To: David Brodbeck <gull@GULL.US>
In-Reply-To:  <Pine.BSF.4.58.0309242116220.28688@gull.us>
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Believe me, I have no false sense of security.  And I've never caught anything,
either.  I use Pegasus with everyting as tight as possible on my Win box.  I
have one of those, and 8 unix boxes.  And I don't allow anything on then except
mutt on one.  And mutt can't catch anything, period.

You are correct, it's the options you don't use that are important.

But it's still the program you _don't_ use that's most important.

And then we can start talking OSs.  But let's ignore that for now.

tom

On 24 Sep 2003 at 21:17, David Brodbeck wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, tom ring wrote:
>
> > Right.  Keep fooling yourself.  The best way to use it is not.
>
> Don't get lulled into a false sense of security.  Any email program can be
> vulnerable.  Heck, they found a remotely-exploitable hole in *Pine*
> recently, of all things!
>
> But, the plain fact is very few viruses have taken advantage of specific
> bugs in Outlook anyway.  Most people are getting infected the old
> fashioned way -- by opening attachments.  The problem here isn't Outlook,
> it's user stupidity.
>
>
> David Brodbeck, N8SRE
> '82 Diesel Westfalia
> '94 Honda Civic Si
>


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Tom Ring K0TAR, ex-WA2PHW  EN34hx
85 Westphalia GL Albert
96 Jetta GL The Intimidator
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