Yeah, it sounds like that school district was smart enough to hire a savvy IT person to administer their e-security. What that person did wasn't rocket science, just good work by a conscientious employee. Outlook can be used safely.
yes! that's exactly the way to go. implementing this simple attachment filtering rule cuts out all the garbage, even new viruses that are not recognized yet by the latest dat file.
on my exchange server i block the following attachments: .exe, .com, .bat, .vbs, .shs, .pif, .scr - al, you said you're doing the same thing, right?
of course, this is only one layer of many in the overall picture of antivirus protection. this does not protect against more sophisticated viruses like nimda or code red that spread via web sites and network shares.
Happy computing!
Alex "crazygerman" Byron Webmaster, Editor-in-Chief PC911
The easy way is to not open .exe, .com, .bat, .vbs, .shs, .pif, .scr attachments. You could set up OE to block those but it's easier to just ignore them and delete away.
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