Avoiding Viruses

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 8:58 pm

Check out this article on how to avoid viruses. It works for me.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 9:30 pm

Hehehe... You said "trojan"....

Looks great.

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 9:57 pm

Nice article, Red. I've had to get a few bugs off my system and it's not fun. I never use an address book anymore.

I have friends that are always sending me things to open...I just hit the delete key! I have OE set so it won't download any attachments.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Sun Jun 08, 2003 11:27 am

I never use an address book anymore.

That's a good idea. I think I will delete all the contacts in my Windows Address Book and just use the one with Mozilla.

These viruses only target the address book that comes with OE, Outlook, and Windows, right? I mean, I don't think they would target the Mozilla address book.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Jun 08, 2003 12:38 pm

The mozilla address book is probably too hard to exploit, if it's possible, it probably encrypts the addresses are does something smart to avoid this, so you should be safe using it, and not to mention it's less popular, so it's less targetted.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Sun Jun 08, 2003 12:44 pm

I am sure Mozilla doesn't encrypt them because I could make out the information when I opened the address book file with Notepad. It stores the address book in a .mab file--whatever that is...

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Jun 08, 2003 1:29 pm

Oh, so it's just text. But still, the virus would have to know how to read it.

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