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Aug 22nd, 2003, 08:52 PM
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Fletcher, if you're directory is empty, that's a very good thing. You don't want any .EXE files there. So, no Blaster virus for you. There's a security patch on microsoft.com to make sure you stay that way.
Jeanne, you'd need to open Windows explorer and then open up folders in the order shown between the "\" characters. The first folder name after locating the root of your hard drive may be something like "WINNT" or "Windows98" rather than the "Windows" portion of the path I listed. Depends on your version of Windows and who installed it. My guess is that if you're regularly getting on the internet, you're ok for now. Once the Blaster virus takes hold, it will reboot you everytime your PC has an internet connection.
Statia, just as sfowler said, preview pane is the same as opening the email. If you've seen what's in it, so has your computer.
Austin,
In a practical sense and related just to theis SobigF virus, your IT guys are probably right. SobigF isn't a very sophisticated approach to distributing a virus. An attachment is obvious. Some are better though. Macro viruses can execute under some installations where standard office programs are installed. MS Office suite, of which Outlook is a part, is capable of internal macro programming and is also capable of being exploited. Then there's those HTML style emails (the one's that look like a webpage). Pushing out additional malicious code in those, via embedded java/javascript is conceivable too. If you have HTML formats set to be accepted, it's not a bad idea to turn those off too. At your company, your likely have some pretty substantial firewalls and anit-virus screening software and that's a good idea. But, I can tell you that I work network for a Fortune 500 with 40000 employees and in the last month, 30% of US corporations have had new viruses get past them onto the internal network.
Jeanne, you'd need to open Windows explorer and then open up folders in the order shown between the "\" characters. The first folder name after locating the root of your hard drive may be something like "WINNT" or "Windows98" rather than the "Windows" portion of the path I listed. Depends on your version of Windows and who installed it. My guess is that if you're regularly getting on the internet, you're ok for now. Once the Blaster virus takes hold, it will reboot you everytime your PC has an internet connection.
Statia, just as sfowler said, preview pane is the same as opening the email. If you've seen what's in it, so has your computer.
Austin,
In a practical sense and related just to theis SobigF virus, your IT guys are probably right. SobigF isn't a very sophisticated approach to distributing a virus. An attachment is obvious. Some are better though. Macro viruses can execute under some installations where standard office programs are installed. MS Office suite, of which Outlook is a part, is capable of internal macro programming and is also capable of being exploited. Then there's those HTML style emails (the one's that look like a webpage). Pushing out additional malicious code in those, via embedded java/javascript is conceivable too. If you have HTML formats set to be accepted, it's not a bad idea to turn those off too. At your company, your likely have some pretty substantial firewalls and anit-virus screening software and that's a good idea. But, I can tell you that I work network for a Fortune 500 with 40000 employees and in the last month, 30% of US corporations have had new viruses get past them onto the internal network.
Aug 23rd, 2003, 12:28 AM
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Thanks, Clifton, for the alert re
review pane. I'd wondered about it, just as happy to shut it down, and also toggled attachments to "not open." (Someday you'll have to tell me if there's any way at all to have "sent" messages that have been moved to any other folder STILL be listed by addressee, instead of relisting them all as having been sent by me. I KNOW I sent them. Another narsty letter to Microsoft....)
For others, Yahoo has this terse little comment on its mail main page: "W32.Sobig.F@mm is a mass-mailing, network-aware worm that sends itself to all the email addresses it finds in certain files on your PC. If you receive a message with an attachment with a .pif or .src extension, we strongly suggest you scan it before downloading. The message may appear to be from someone you know. "
review pane. I'd wondered about it, just as happy to shut it down, and also toggled attachments to "not open." (Someday you'll have to tell me if there's any way at all to have "sent" messages that have been moved to any other folder STILL be listed by addressee, instead of relisting them all as having been sent by me. I KNOW I sent them. Another narsty letter to Microsoft....)For others, Yahoo has this terse little comment on its mail main page: "W32.Sobig.F@mm is a mass-mailing, network-aware worm that sends itself to all the email addresses it finds in certain files on your PC. If you receive a message with an attachment with a .pif or .src extension, we strongly suggest you scan it before downloading. The message may appear to be from someone you know. "
Aug 23rd, 2003, 01:16 AM
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DebiC, With mail2web, I first delete any obvious spam or suspicious emails right off the bat. On the average day, we get about 80 emails on our main account and 90% of them are junk--so out they go.
I only open emails I'm reasonably sure are genuine, but I still look at them at mail2web.com first. The attachments are listed, but I don't open them unless the files are something I'm expecting.
Finally, html emails don't appear as html unless you click on the "view as html" button.
We haven't had any problems with viruses and we don't waste time downloading junk. (We do have all the latest anti-virus software on our computer anyway).
I only open emails I'm reasonably sure are genuine, but I still look at them at mail2web.com first. The attachments are listed, but I don't open them unless the files are something I'm expecting.
Finally, html emails don't appear as html unless you click on the "view as html" button.
We haven't had any problems with viruses and we don't waste time downloading junk. (We do have all the latest anti-virus software on our computer anyway).
Aug 23rd, 2003, 11:34 AM
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Ah, sorry Absurd. I should have mentioned that while Outlook lets you turn that off, Outlook Express doesn't. The only HTML references in Outlook Express are to how outqoing mail is formatted. I guess it's one of those "incentives" Microsoft likes to dangle to squeeze those upgrade dollars out.
Cassandra,
Yeah, there's kind of a way to do it. Every folder has it's own settings and you can pick and choose which columns to display. On most of the folders in email, the "From" field is displayed by default. In the sent items folder, the "To" field is selected as a default field. When you drag an email from one folder to another, the columns are still dictated by the folder the email is now in. Since that new folder is defaulting to "From" as a column header, thats what is showing up.
To change it (for all of the emails in the folder, not just the sent one you dragged there) click on the folder you want to change. The at the top menu, choose "View" and the "Columns". You can turn on or off anything you want. You may want both the "From" and the "To" column showing.
Cassandra,
Yeah, there's kind of a way to do it. Every folder has it's own settings and you can pick and choose which columns to display. On most of the folders in email, the "From" field is displayed by default. In the sent items folder, the "To" field is selected as a default field. When you drag an email from one folder to another, the columns are still dictated by the folder the email is now in. Since that new folder is defaulting to "From" as a column header, thats what is showing up.
To change it (for all of the emails in the folder, not just the sent one you dragged there) click on the folder you want to change. The at the top menu, choose "View" and the "Columns". You can turn on or off anything you want. You may want both the "From" and the "To" column showing.
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