On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 03:46:48PM -0700, JC Dill wrote:
At 02:07 PM 8/20/2003, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote:
There's quite a lot of usable stuff out there. Many Win32 users have switched to Mozilla which seems to solve 100% of the Outlook-specific attacks which account for... hmmm... 100% of the malicious email messages of the last 6 months.
Unfortunately, that's not true. My father has to use Windoze because several software programs for his industry (Real Estate, specifically managing rentals) only come in Windoze flavors. He stays away from M$ client software whenever possible and was using Mozilla for email (until yesterday, I'm getting him started on Eudora). His email software doesn't automatically open attachments for him.
For some (but not all folks), you can run such software on a Windows virtual machine (I use Win4Lin) under a Unix or Linux OS. That might be an attractive and not very expensive solution for the above.
jc
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