Email virus protection

Thu Aug 21 01:07:44 UTC 2003

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 03:46:48PM -0700, JC Dill wrote:
> 
> At 02:07 PM 8/20/2003, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote:
> 
> >There's quite a lot of usable stuff out there. Many Win32 users have
> >switched to Mozilla which seems to solve 100% of the Outlook-specific
> >attacks which account for... hmmm... 100% of the malicious email
> >messages of the last 6 months.
> 
> Unfortunately, that's not true.  My father has to use Windoze because 
> several software programs for his industry (Real Estate, specifically 
> managing rentals) only come in Windoze flavors.  He stays away from M$ 
> client software whenever possible and was using Mozilla for email (until 
> yesterday, I'm getting him started on Eudora).  His email software doesn't 
> automatically open attachments for him.

For some (but not all folks), you can run such software on a Windows
virtual machine (I use Win4Lin) under a Unix or Linux OS. That might
be an attractive and not very expensive solution for the above.

> 
> jc

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