Re: Social Engineering

From: Ben Measures (saint_abroadremove_at_removehotmail.com)
Date: 01/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 04:12:38 +0000

>Angela Kahealani <angela@kahealani.com> wrote in
>news:101dfpebjjkm1c3@corp.supernews.com:
>Simply refusing to use Outlook Express would make the computer world 95%
>safer. Forget Windows - Windows is fine without OE and IE as gaping
>security breeches, open to allow exploiters to harm your system.

There are some viruses that can infect your computer without using OE or
IE. In fact, those are the viruses that have been most sucessful.

So the only way you can really protect your system is to take it off the
networks and put it into a room with a locked door.

Or you can get Antivirus software and update that every day... 

-- 
Ben M.
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