automated social engineering at it's best (maybe?)

[Kenneth E. Lussier]

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 13:25, Derek Martin wrote:

> >   Good anti-virus software does do a good job of protecting lusers from
> > themselves.  The problems with AV are (1) you have to use it, (2) it is
> > reactive (and thus lusers are vulnerable until the sigs update), (3) lusers
> > don't make sure their sigs get updated.
> 
> Yeah.  Recently I have had some occasion to receive certain content
> from certain less-than-trusted sources, and Antivir Personal at the
> link above has saved my computer's butt from infection more than once.
> It is unfortunate that No Anti-virus software seems to install
> properly configured by default.  [It is even more unfortunate that I
> still occasionally have reason to run Windows.] But anyway...

Another option here is to have an anti-virus system like ClamAV
(http://www.clamav.net/) installed on your mail server. It doesn't
negate the need for an AV on the local machine, but it lessens the
likelyhood of needing to use it.   

FYI,
Kenny
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