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Re: user doc for email attachments and web surfing

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Bill <brobins3d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That's ok, I strongly disagree with you. You can educate all you want
about not opening attachments that are not expected, blah blah blah.
All it takes is an email from the President of the company with an
attachment that says "Organizational Announcement" and bam, every PC in
the company is infected if their AV software doesn't catch it first.

Why would your e-mail system accept unauthenticated mails from the
outside with an internal sender?
Why wouldn't your mail client block executable attachments?

Besides, your argument doesn't invalidate my point, which boils down
to: do both.

AV software is far from perfect, and it will _NEVER_ work against
targeted attacks, which is exactly what most companies want to protect
against - there, only draconian system policies and proper user
education can help.


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