Consensus opinion required - was 'more worms'

Wed May 15 21:39:16 EDT 2002

If you have Internet Explorer and Outlook Express 6 with all the necessary
patches, if a virus will try to automaticly open itself, Outlook Express
will ask you if you want to open it or save it to hard disk.
You can choose to save to hard disk, but if you also have Norton, it will
clean the file, or move it to quarantine.

If you want to disable the Active X, go to Tools menu, choose options, go to
privacy tab, choose "restricted sites from those radio buttons.
Then go to Control Panel/Internet Options/Privacy page, select restricted
sites and change the settings for that area for not to have Active X, or
other things you want.

Teddy,
orasnita at home.ro

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 1:46 AM
Subject: Re: Consensus opinion required - was 'more worms'

Hi All,
I use outlook depress to read email, since my linux box is still in pieces.
How can I stop active x controls and other code from launching the files?
Norton catches them only after the file is opened.  Is there any way to stop
this?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at attbi.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: Consensus opinion required - was 'more worms'

> Hi Kerry. Well said, no doubt on your statements. I remember the days back
> when plain text was perhaps the only method for sending e-mail (late 80's
> early 90's). Those were the good days!
>
> Gates go to hell, your OS is waiting for you there!
>
> On Wed, 15 May 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
>
> > Hi Kerry,
> >
> > No question about it, things would be a whole lot better if
> > nobody sent html emails - I only wanted to point out that many
> > html emails can readily be handled by pine (and perhaps other
> > mail readers) and also that html email comes with and without
> > viruses as do plain text emails - banning html is no protection
> > against viruses.
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote:
> >
> > > Chuck I should point out that certain versions
> > > of pine have contained buffer overflows in the html processing
elements
> > > and so did older versions of mutt and lynx.
> > > I am not taking a stand one way or the other regarding html messages
> > > except to say that there are dangers in html;
> > > more so for Windows users than Linux ones but the Linux dangers
> > > exist as well.
> > > I don't mind html if there is an equivalent plain text section,
> > > but replying to html only messages causes me grief.
> > > I for my own reasons choose to send to mailing lists in plain text
> > > to minimize bandwidth usage and also message bloat.
> > > I encourage people to set their look out distress
> > > settings to send in plain text where possible but let it reply to a
message
> > > in the format it was received in.
> > >
> > > Regards, Kerry.
> > > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:16:13AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I am still a pine user, and on my system pine reads html messages
> > > > transparently, no problem. HTML has nothing to do with most
> > > > viruses. Executable attachments that launch themselves are the
> > > > real problem.
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Since I've been using mutt to read my mail, I really haven't been
> > > > > affected either way with HTML mail.  When I used pine, it was an
> > > > > annoyance but no more than that.  But I think I would favor a
blockage
> > > > > of HTML mail since the reasons sighted below and some people still
use
> > > > > windows mailers on the list; so go for it!
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:48:26PM +0100, 'Georgina' wrote:
> > > > > > Hi All
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Because of the use of html messages being used to transmit
Windows
> > > > > > viruses, I wondered if folks would agree to having list messages
> > > > > > restricted to plain text only?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The list owner will act upon whatever the consensus is.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Gena
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Have your say:
> > > > > > Blindness Advocacy and Self Help Online www.bashonline.org
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Please don't send me MS Word documents, see
> > > > > > http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Personal Contact Details:
> > > > > > E-mail: gena at gena-j.net WWW: http://www.gena-j.net ICQ:
144169465
> > > > > >
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