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Re: disallow freemail


From: Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 15:01:58 -0600

Haji:
And every other vulnerability that email poses to the corporate network but alas I see you use one of freemail services so guess what you are saying do as I say not as I do... Probably does not "wash" too good in today's environment.

VR
Henry

haji din wrote:

hi list,

anybody blocking or having a security policy that
disallow users from using freemail (yahoo, hotmail,
etc)?
what are security threat that freemail poses to
corporate network?

One threat is that users will be able to download
malicious files, bypassing security measure at a mail
gateway. Any more ideas?

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