Preventing the next MyDoom (fwd)

[Stewart Sinclair]

Good ideas all.  But neither he nor any of the people he works with 
understand these kinds of solutions and the ones making these sorts of 
decisions seem to be inaccessible.  Though I will mention this suggestion 
to him - thanks.

I don't hold out much hope for it though.  He will have difficulty 
explaining it to them and they probably aren't listing - if they can be 
reached at all.  We're dealing with Southam after all.  I know Conrad B. 
has moved on but that's the kind of mentality in this place.

Stew
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At 10:49 AM 19/02/04 -0500, you wrote:
>Perhaps he and his employer should consider a crappy old PC, not connected 
>to the network, and a transport mechanism such as a flashdisk / USB memory 
>pen / ...
>That way,   he can move his mail to a system which is welcome to slash & 
>burn,  without risking the entire corporation.
>
>Of course, converting the corp to Unix would provide even better 
>protection,  since Unix viruses are practically unknown.
>
>Tom
>
>Stewart Sinclair wrote:
>
>>Your points are well taken and it seems so simple and obvious once it's 
>>explained.

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