kurt.ludwig@api-networks.com said:
> I completely agree with you there, but it's like a mouse trying to
> take on a buffalo. You end up doing what you have to in order to keep
> your mail servers running.
Wheee, aren't we off-topic? :)
I favour a different approach.
For this virus to infect your company network requires that one of your
employees is silly enough to blindly double-click on the pretty picture
associated with the file they've just received from somewhere outside the
company.
That action is the result of either negligence, malice or ignorance on the
part of the offending user. As the dangerous nature of this kind of thing is
public knowledge, since the Melissa virus, the ignorance excuse can be
summarily dismissed, and we're left with only offences for which that user
can be dismissed from their employment and sued for damages.
So sack them. And sue them. And _then_ maybe the others will get the
message.
As far as I'm concerned, the same goes for users accepting Word documents
from across security boundaries.
cf. http://www.infradead.org/fileexchange.html
I should probably add a note to that explaining the potential danger of
HTML when combined with a too-trusting HTML viewer.
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