I'm using Outlook 2003 and I have yet to see any such behaviour, although
I'm not a dummy and I went in and set the (new features to 2003 btw, very
nice) settings to forcefully convert all messages to plain text, and to also
never display any objects inline. So far no attachment I've received has
been automatically opened or executed.
Eli.
-----Original Message-----
From: exim-users-admin@??? [
mailto:exim-users-admin@exim.org] On Behalf
Of Phil Brutsche
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 11:29 PM
To: Nigel Metheringham
Cc: J Yunke; exim-users@???
Subject: Re: [Exim] Quick Fix in SpamAssassin for latest ZIP worm
Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> exiscan's standard extension blocking appears to be getting this other
> than .zip files which we do not block (the fact that a worm can
> successfully propagate through .zip files shows that many windows users
> are even more stupid than I ever suspected).
Current releases of Outlook will ever-so-helpfully *automatically*
decompress .zip files for you and *automatically* attempt to display the
content. "Current" being Outlook XP and Outlook 2k3 - I don't see this
behavior with Outlook 2k.
That and some end users are more stupid than you can possibly imagine.
Keep in mind too that SMTP isn't it's only propogation method.
--
Phil Brutsche
phil@???
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