Re: worm/virus impact

Might want to review this KB article about the attachment manager:

Description of how the Attachment Manager works in Windows XP Service Pack 2:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=883260

If you do not have Service Pack 2 installed, you are running a severely compromised system and would suggest you get it as soon as possible. Visit the Windows Update page to check that you have all patches marked as Critical installed.
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Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
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"mwood" <mwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:2BA0308A-BAD3-46E0-B13B-E75C9CC7B199@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have a Windows XP machine that was recently hit with an apparent variant of
the WORM_BAGLE.BE virus. To guard against this type of attack, I am trying
to enable the ability in Outlook Express to block unsafe attachments.

However, for some reason I no longer can block zip files; in fact the system
seems to be ignoring my settings.

I have, in OE, selected the "do not allow attachments to be opened ..."
setting, and then, in the file types, I've marked for the ZIP file type that
it should "Confirm open after download". The combination of those two things
should cause OE to not open such attachments, but it is cheerfully letting
them be opened anyway.

Either I have overlooked something, or that worm somehow caused the system
to no longer respect these settings. As far as I can tell, the worm was not
able to install itself o/w; the user's account that was active when the worm
was run was running with limited user privileges. 

.

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