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Disabling AV Software - OK? Richard 11-13-2005
Posted by Phil Weldon on November 13, 2005, 2:38 pm
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'Malke' wrote, in part:
| Good advice about not opening email attachments, but it should be noted
| that one is far likely to receive an infected attachment from someone
| one *does* know than from a stranger.
_____

And I'd add:

If you absolutely HAVE to open suspicious email, do it with an application
like MagicMailMonitor that allows viewing in text only (in Notepad.)
Realtime virus checking will block opening a recognized infection, and
viewing in text mode will at least give you some idea of the content.

In times past there was an exploit that could cause an infection without
opening or previewing a message in Outlook Express. A patch was issued for
that vulnerability, and the latest Windows operating systems and versions of
Outlook Express don't have the vulnerability. But there was a gap - a
certain path of upgrading could, for a time, leave the vulnerability
present, though giving the impression that had been removed. It could
happen again, and with other programs.

Phil Weldon

| Panda_man wrote:
|
| > Just an additions :
| >
| >
| > Richard ,if you use Outlook Express
| > open it and click once on Inbox
| > Then View-Layout and uncheck the Show preview pane .
| >
| > So,when you receive an email it will not be automatically
| > opened.You'll need to click on it to open it.Never open emails from
| > people you don't know.Never open attachments from people you don't
| > know.
| >
| (snip)
|
| Good advice about not opening email attachments, but it should be noted
| that one is far likely to receive an infected attachment from someone
| one *does* know than from a stranger. As you know, many viruses will
| send emails w/viral attachments to everyone in the infected computer's
| addressbook. Of course, friends will have their addresses there. So the
| proscription should be to not open *any* email attachments unless
| expecting them. Even then, there is always the chance of infection if
| the virus is one for which no definitions are written yet.
|
| Malke
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| www.elephantboycomputers.com
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Posted by Robert Moir on November 13, 2005, 3:32 pm
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Malke wrote:

> Good advice about not opening email attachments, but it should be
> noted that one is far likely to receive an infected attachment from
> someone one *does* know than from a stranger. As you know, many
> viruses will send emails w/viral attachments to everyone in the
> infected computer's addressbook.

Yes. People talk about trust being important but in these cases it only
means that the person you trust won't *intentionally* send you anything
harmfull.



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