The biggest, best move would be if we could get Microsoft
onboard, and/or some
company able to produce something that would piggyback onto
Outlook and Outlook
Express.
That would be the best way to make the biggest impact, the fastest.
They're already in, at a much higher level.
Well, they are, but only half-heartedly at this point. Their typical approach
is to enable the user to block certain kinds of things, although the
restrictions feature is presently mostly unusable... if you need to be able to
accept HTML or ActiveX or attachments from ANY SINGLE sender, then you end up
having to basically turn it on globally.
If they'd set up finer gradations on what the user is willing to accept, AND
then to make those permissions variable, based upon who the sender is... then
they'd be a lot closer to the technique I believe in.
Of course, the more
secure they make their products, the less they will be exploited, but,
there will *always* be exploits -- there will always be bots, IMHO.
Sure, but by slashing unexpected attachments and HTML, we can SLASH the arrival
of worms and viruses in E-mail, to something very nearly approaching zero. And
we could do that much EASILY. And it doesn't require ANY major global E-mail
infrastructure changes, nor does it require loading new antivirus files every
60
minutes.
(In fact, MY approach would also block most viruses and worms in E-mail EVEN
BEFORE *ANY* ANTIVIRUS PRODUCT was able to detect it...!)
Gordon Peterson http://personal.terabites.com/
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