Date:         Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:42:09 -0700
Reply-To:     Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
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From:         Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Subject:      Re: Strange messages-- infected file
Comments: To: tom ring <taring@TARING.ORG>
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Oh, please let's talk OSs!  Whatever the heck that is.

Mike

On 9/24/03 8:01 PM, "tom ring" <taring@TARING.ORG> wrote:

> 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
>>
>
>
> ------
> Tom Ring K0TAR, ex-WA2PHW  EN34hx
> 85 Westphalia GL Albert
> 96 Jetta GL The Intimidator
> taring@taring.org
>
> "It is better to go into a turn slow, and come out fast, than to go into a
> turn fast
> and come out dead." Stirling Moss
>
>