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Kelly Martin, 2004-02-20

If hundreds of thousands of people are still blindly clicking on attachments in their email, is there any hope of mitigating the threat of hundreds of thousands of compromised systems with open backdoors?

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Knock, Knock, Knock 2004-02-20
Anonymous
"If we cannot prevent the average user from double-clicking the latest virus in his email, how will we ever stop the propagation of more advanced, stealthy code?"

trivial - disallow executable attachments entirely.

And if you also want to stop potential buffer overflow of normal attachments, d...

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