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Re: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter..
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:09:58 -0400
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:39:21 CDT, "Schmehl, Paul L" said:
Do you really believe this? I don't. One only has to look at the Sobig outbreak yesterday to realize that some subset of the 100% of users out there will execute an attachment *despite* being repeatedly warned about the dangers. My God, when all you have to do is put "See attached file" in the body and people *still* execute the virus, it becomes self evident that *no* amount of education is going to completely solve the problem.
Have to admit that mimail did a good social engineering job - when it gets sent from 'admin@<yourdomain', and says "Your account is about to expire, see the attachment for details", a lot of otherwise clued people will bite. Of course, the *average* e-mail user doesn't understand the distinction between "internet" and "web", even after you point out that e-mail isn't web.... In April 1951, Galaxy published C.M. Kornbluth's "The Marching Morons". The intervening years have proved Kornbluth right.
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- RE: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Paul Schmehl (Aug 20)
- Re: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 21)
- Re: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Nick FitzGerald (Aug 21)
- RE: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Dan Stromberg (Aug 21)
- RE: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Paul Szabo (Aug 20)
- RE: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Schmehl, Paul L (Aug 20)
- RE: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Schmehl, Paul L (Aug 20)
- RE: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Gary E. Miller (Aug 20)
- Re: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Bryan Allen (Aug 20)
- RE: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Gary E. Miller (Aug 20)
- RE: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Schmehl, Paul L (Aug 20)
- Re: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 20)
- RE: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Gary E. Miller (Aug 20)
- RE: Re: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Schmehl, Paul L (Aug 20)
- RE: Re: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Drew Copley (Aug 20)
- RE: Re: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Gary E. Miller (Aug 20)
- RE: Re: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Paul Schmehl (Aug 20)
- RE: Re: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Gary E. Miller (Aug 20)
- RE: Re: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Drew Copley (Aug 21)
- RE: Re: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Drew Copley (Aug 20)
- Re: Re: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Thor Larholm (Aug 21)
- RE: Re: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filter.. Drew Copley (Aug 21)