[ale] OT: offline malware removal tool for windoze

[Jeff Lightner]

Of course turning off the preview pane helps.  I use Outlook on my
company provided desktop and have yet to see it open a link on which I
didn't click.

I've always thought it should be called preview "pain".  To me such
previews are annoying as hell and take up screen real estate.  If I
can't tell from the sender and subject whether I want to open it (sorry
my Paypal account alert isn't going to be opened since I don't have a
Paypal account) then I simply delete it.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
To: ale at ale.org
Robert Reese
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 3:17 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: offline malware removal tool for windoze

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On 8/16/2007 at 1:40 PM Preston Boyington wrote:

>Robert Reese wrote:
>> Remind her that it wasn't you that didn't keep the operating system
>up-to-date...
><snipped>
>
>if i were a betting person, i would wager it to be something like a
file
>sharing service and she was getting music or some such.

I wouldn't be surprised.  When I find these systems that have been
downloading tons of music/video/pr0n, etc., I always point out that that
is probably the biggest reason for their infection in addition to all
the things they should have or have not done to protect themselves.  Of
course, once they know they've been 'busted' for (potential) piracy they
are more receptive to my information as well as my large invoice. ;c)

BTW, I'm also willing to wager she used Outlook/Outlook Express
(probably the latter).  Both do such an awesome job of instantly firing
any kind of malicious html and related dangerous chaff the moment you
pass over it while going to another message via the arrow key.  In other
words, since HTML viewing is on and so is the preview pane by default,
using the arrow keys on the keyboard to traverse messages will activate
each and every message highlighted, even if it is just for a
micro-second.  There's many a system infected because of a malicious
html email message sent to an unprotected person using outlook and
outlook express.

Truth be told, if I see that someone is using OE I automatically assume
they're infected.  If they use AOL, I'm certain of it. ;c)

Cheers,
Robert~

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