Date:         Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:20:12 -0700
Reply-To:     Philip Chidlaw <pchidlaw@MCN.ORG>
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From:         Philip Chidlaw <pchidlaw@MCN.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Strange messages-- infected file
In-Reply-To:  <Pine.BSF.4.58.0309242116220.28688@gull.us>
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Bingo. Operator error.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
Of David Brodbeck
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 6:18 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Strange messages-- infected file


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