ZD-Net Tech. Update  [**Highlights**]

By Steven Vaughan-Nichols
September 25, 2001
article at 
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2814683,00.html

[ and *** Karl's *** notes ]


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		BAN - OUTLOOK !!!


Outlook, with it deep hooks into the operating system, 
will always have security problems. 

So I'd like to propose a radical way to prevent OTDs: 
ban Outlook from corporate desktops. 
You think I'm kidding? I'm not. 

Outlook is vulnerable by design. 

*** It is the TOP #1 Hackers Virus etc. !! Tool !!! ***
[ *** UGH ! I like and Use Outlook 2000
but with recent problems thinking of switching *** ]

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*** Settings NEEDED IF Using OUTLOOK !!! ***


You should also turn off ActiveX in Outlook 
by going to 

Tool/Option/Security  and 
set the security zone for Outlook HTML mail to Restricted Sites. 

Then, click on the 
Zone Setting button, 
and click your way through Custom and Settings 
to the Security Settings dialog box 
and disable all options for ActiveX Controls 
and plugins and Scripting. 

Because worms are now clever enough to be activated 
simply by having their host message show up in the view panel, 
you should also disable the view panel. 

You can do this by going to View/Layout 
and make sure that Show Preview pane option 
is NOT checked on.

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		Want a replacement to OUTlook ?

I like Pegasus Mail--and it's free! 
***  at   http://www.pmail.com/  ***

Eudora also still has its fans 
http://www.eudora.com/

and can run on Windows PCs, Macs, and even Palms. 
Sure, your users can still get Nimda on their machines, 
but they can't spread it to anyone else via e-mail. 
I like this idea.


*** Ugh !  AAAAaaae !!!  Karl 10/14 ***