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Re: Mail security (was: Mangling of mails)

• Posted by Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> Jan 24, 2003
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Euler,

I agree, & heretofore have also never directly opened attachments, always
saved them to file & then looked at them as carefully as I could, looking
first at "properties".  But it seemed the only way to employ the test
pointed to (for some of them) was to open their attachment.

Dan Moyer]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Euler German" <efgerman at myrealbox.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: Mail security (was: Mangling of mails)


>
> On 24 Jan 2003, at 1:51, Dan Moyer wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi Juergen,
> >
> > <snipped by human with 4 eyes)
> >
> <snipped by human with 4 eyes too)>
>
> >
> > I also got the 15 test emails, I think my system passed all but the
> > eicar test virus, which is caught on save/open.  Hope this really was
> > safe!!
> >
> Dan, while I have lots of security software in my desktop I never rely
> 100% on them. As you did, I never, ever, open any attachment inside my
> eMail client though the maker says it's safe. There's no replacement to
> a "safe behavior". This is as good to eMail as is for sex. (Hope Big
> Brother don't catch this...) ;)
>
> Euler
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