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Re: Mail security (was: Mangling of mails)

• Posted by acran at readout.fsnet.co.uk Jan 24, 2003
• 438 views

grc.com is an excellent site.

I use a different approach with exe attachments and any sort of 3rd party
software I download from the web or get hold of on CD-ROM.  I have a second
(slow but useable) computer running the same Winblows OS (98SE).  I try the
software on this second machine.  If it does what I want and doesn't appear
to exhibit unwanted side effects then I'll install and run it on my main
machine.

If it trashes the second machine they I reformat the hard drive and reload
Windows 98SE.  Actually I save time by reloading a disk image of the second
machine from my first machine.  You could use the popular Ghost utility but
I use my home grown "replicon" DOS executable.  Because I wrote replicon in
Euphoria you can get it from the RDS archive.

Two machines an extravagance?  Maybe but you could probably take a Pentium
100Mhz machine off someone's hands for nothing (or next to nothing) these
days.  The actual test machine I use is an aging IBM PC with a Pentium
75Mhz in it running Windows 98SE!  You get a free coffee break while it
boots up 

Regards,

Andy Cranston.

At 07:09 AM 1/24/03 -0800, you wrote:
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>Kat,
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>And, of course, if their test, intended to showcase their security software,
>is incomplete, then what might that say about their software?
>
>BTW, "ZoneAlarm" points people to a (not associated?) web site to test
>firewalls, Gibson Research,
>http://grc.com/default.htm
>the "ShieldsUp" test, what do you think of it?  I haven't tried the trojan
>download test yet.
>
>Dan Moyer
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <gertie at visionsix.com>
>To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
>Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 3:05 AM
>Subject: Re: Mail security (was: Mangling of mails)
>
>
>> On 24 Jan 2003, at 1:51, Dan Moyer wrote:
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>> >
>> > Hi Juergen,
>> >
>> > <snipped by human with 4 eyes)
>> >
>> > > > Anyway, if you want to make sure, there's a test (safe) at
>> > > > http://www.gfi.com/emailsecuritytest/ that will expose all your
>> > > > client's weaknesses.
>> > >
>> > > They sent me 15(!) test mails. 
>> > > Very interesting!
>> > >
>> >
>> > 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!!
>>
>> <unsnipped by me>
>>
>> Almost all those seemed to rely on VBS. I wonder what would happen if they
>> used some actual machine code or other interpreter on the puter.
>>
>> Kat
>>
>>
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