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Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us??????
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Mon Nov 24 17:11:49 2003
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 22:54:56 +0100
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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* Richard@mandarin.com (Richard Cox) [Mon 24 Nov 2003, 20:30 CET]:
>
> The latest version of Zone Alarm Pro does stop all applications from
> accessing the net outbound unless specifically authorised, and it does
> check the executable by checksum to make sure it hasn't been changed.
Right up to the moment the end user, annoyed by the continuous popups,
authorises mshtml.dll - which is used by several malicious-by-design
worms (including Outlook).
-- Niels.
