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Re: Mobile code security (was Re: rr style scanning of non-customers)
From: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson () greendragon com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 11:38:57 -0400
"Christopher L. Morrow" wrote:
yea, if my sister in-law (who barely knows what 'computer' means most times) can come to the conclusion that: 1) all email viruses of note are outlook targetted 2) everyone with outlook gets viruses therefore 3) why would anyone ever run outlook why can't multibillion dollar companies figure that out? it does mystify me :)
When I visited for my birthday last week, I discovered my 15-year-old niece's Comcast attached machine was infected wih multiple things, one of which (I never figured out how) would even prevent the machine from being shutdown (turned it into restart). From the activity lights, it was pretty clearly sending a lot of traffic, sitting in the basement unattended, with the screen blanked. As far as I could tell, the vector was AOL IM. So, it's not only M$ and outlook. Why oh why are vendors shipping with defaults like no restrictions on "buddy" downloads and execution? -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32
Current thread:
- Re: Mobile code security (was Re: rr style scanning of non-customers) Paul Vixie (Jun 15)
- Re: Mobile code security (was Re: rr style scanning of non-customers) Christopher L. Morrow (Jun 15)
- Re: Mobile code security (was Re: rr style scanning of non-customers) Matt Hess (Jun 16)
- Re: Mobile code security (was Re: rr style scanning of non-customers) Paul Vixie (Jun 16)
- Re: Mobile code security (was Re: rr style scanning of non-customers) Christopher L. Morrow (Jun 16)
- Re: Mobile code security (was Re: rr style scanning of non-customers) William Allen Simpson (Jun 16)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Mobile code security (was Re: rr style scanning of non-customers) Brandon Butterworth (Jun 16)
- Re: Mobile code security (was Re: rr style scanning of non-customers) Jared Mauch (Jun 16)
- RE: Mobile code security (was Re: rr style scanning of non-customers) Mark Borchers (Jun 16)
- Re: Mobile code security (was Re: rr style scanning of non-customers) Brandon Butterworth (Jun 16)
- Re: Mobile code security (was Re: rr style scanning of non-customers) Paul Vixie (Jun 16)
- Re: Mobile code security (was Re: rr style scanning of non-customers) Jack Bates (Jun 16)
- Re: Mobile code security (was Re: rr style scanning of non-customers) Paul Vixie (Jun 16)
- RE: Mobile code security (was Re: rr style scanning of non-customers) Herb Leong (Jun 16)
- Re: Mobile code security (was Re: rr style scanning of non-customers) Christopher L. Morrow (Jun 15)