Re: How unsafe is Outlook Express?

almost every email program is vulnerible. It is up to your antivirus to
catch what comes in. In my opinion I think Symantic is wrong. I think you
should have any antivirus protection checking incoming email all the time.
I use AVG antivirus program the free and the pro on many computers and I
have found it uses less memory than Norton, has caught things Norton has not
and you can set it to scan incoming and outgoing emails.
You need to have a good antivirus program and a good antispyware program
running because the antivirus program only grabs viruses and some actually
will grab trojans, but a good antispyware program will grab malware and
trojans. You can only have one antivirus program running on your computer
because they will fight each other and prolly lock it up or crash but you
can have 20 antispyware programs. I would not recommend 20 that is a bit
overkil but I run, avg antispyware, ad-aware, spybot search and destroy,
spywareblaster and superantispyware.
I hope this helps
robin
"michal bucko" <michal.bucko@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You cannot say that Outlook Express is unsafe. Every software has
vulnerabilities still waiting to be discovered, and exploited. There's
always a possibility that the vulnerability (especially in such software)
will allow remote exploitation without the interaction of the user.. but
that's not that simple. There are not currently known any remote
exploits for OE. Generally, if you obey the fundamental rules you talked
about, the bar is risen high for the exploiters.

.. I am very interested in the 'hanging' element of your problem's
description. Could you provide more information? It might be possible that
AV solution is vulnerable. (but I don't think this
is the case)


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Michal Bucko
eleytt.com
sapheal.hack.pl


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