Recent Spam Warnings

From: Joerg Bruehe <joerg_at_sql.de>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:05:22 +0200

Hi Tru64 admins!

(Yes, I know this list is not for discussions -
I hope such a situation will not arise again.)

Jim Fitzmaurice wrote:
> [...] and others that I'm afraid to look at because the new virus
> exploits a MIME hole. You don't have to open the message,
> just highlight it in outlook and the preview feature does the rest, [...]

1) In my company, we officially got the hint to _disable_
   Outlook's "preview" feature for this very reason
   (In the German version, click the third pull-down menu "Ansicht"
   and remove the tick at "Vorschaufenster" - for other languages,
   please find your corresponding place).

2) Jim (as well as several others, day by day) posted in HTML,
   which (IMHO: unluckily) is displayed by (most or all) readers.
   I would like to see all mail (at least on this list) to use plain
   text only, for security reasons like these.
   (And I would like to configure my Netscape not to show HTML,
   if I only found a way to do so.)

I wish you all not to incur any damage from the current virus wave
(and to enjoy your weekend),

Joerg Bruehe

-- 
Joerg Bruehe, SQL Datenbanksysteme GmbH, Berlin, Germany
     (speaking only for himself)
mailto: joerg_at_sql.de
Received on Fri Apr 19 2002 - 16:05:41 NZST

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