Re: Outlook and irrational virus fears
From: Michael (michael.mettam_at_bwb-consulting.com)
Date: 05/17/04
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Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 08:02:28 -0700
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>"Richard" <lion122@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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>>Hello,
>
>>Can someone help me with some information?
>>I have been using Outlook 2000 successfully for two
years now.
>>Recently, It has come to the attention of our IT staff
that I have been
>using this product. The head of our IT staff has
unhesitatingly and
>uncategorically forbid me >from using this product as I
will probably cause
>the demise of the building's network due to virus
infestation.
>>His opinion is based on the fact that he has read
somewhere that this
>product is incredibly virus prone.
>
>Garbage. No more "virus prone" than any other Windows
email client. As long
>as you have an up-to-date Anti Virus program, save and
scan attachments that
>you need, and delete emails from people you don't know,
then you are 99.9%
>safe.
>
>>Now, we receive email viruses here all of the time. We
have a firewall, yet
>they still seem to get through.
>
>A firewall does NOT stop email.
>
>>What is troublesome is that there doesn't seem to be
any product on the
>market which comes close to Outlooks abilities to send
HTML messages?
>>I have read up on this subject and learned that we need
to acquire
>something called a digital signature? If we acquire
this - then recipients
>of an email will know >WHO they are getting their email
FROM!
>>What is confusing me is that the bulk of viruses seem
to be on INCOMING
>emails! Is this true? If so, then a firewall seems to be
a very practical
>thing to do yet it >doesn't seem to prevent all viruses
from getting past
>the network.
>
>See above - a Firewall does NOT stop email! Tell the IT
dept to put some
>effective virus-scanning software on your mail server.
You might add that at
>one company I worked for, we were infected by the "I
Love You" virus
>by....wait for it...ONE OF THE IT DEPT!
>Don't take what the IT dept says as gospel, a large
number of them don't
>know what they are talking about. The IT dept is there
to provide a service
>to the Company, not the other way around.
>
>
>
>
>Margaret.
>
>
>.
>What you are talking about will be a email virus... and
as Margaret says "Get som virus checking software"... we
have @ my company some of this software and its called
GFI mailsecurity... what it does is it scans all emails
for virus before you actually get them in your inbox.
Then if a virus is attached the software will strip it
and the system admin will get notified of it!... Your
firewall is a system that protects you against incoming
hackers and worm viruses... not email viruses. A worm
virus will spread it's self by sending it's self to a IP
address in the net... this is done at random... if the
firewall is working properly the attack will bounce as
the firewall hides you from the attack!
Outlook 2003 is an excelent program and i would strongly
recommend you use it! The only problem your going to have
with it is that the s/w is so new the maunfactures
(MICROSOFT) won't have found all the bugs with it!
Regards
Michael
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