On Thursday 04 March 2004 09:12, Ruffles Stephen (5M3) Portland Medical
Practice wrote:
> I've had run of these to my home email address from various nhs locations!
> As I use Mail Watcher it sorts them out and I delete/bounce them. All come
> with a short message in body of email and a zip file of about 30 kB, and as
> Adrian says don't unzip.
Adrian didn't say that this time, but would have.
However what Adrian really says about this is that you should arrange for all
attachments to be removed from incoming emails at the border of your
Practice, and dropped into a rather restrcited access directory (ours is
called _incoming ) where they are left to ferment for a while.
They are not opened by J. Random User either.
It is no longer reasonable to allow random attachments to enter the Practice
because sooner or later it is inevitable that the race between virus release
and installation of remedy will be lost on your network.
--
Adrian Midgley (Linux desktop)
GP, Exeter
http://www.defoam.net/
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