Ban Outlook--now

By the Nimda, the latest Outlook transmitted diseases (OTD get) slugged the company's list reads like a who is who in a large company, and Sprint, Siemens, Microsoft, Japan ranked first.Nimda, known to professionals as W32.Nimda.A @ mm, increasing and expanding.As I sat in my home in the Blue Ridge Mountains, in my NetScreen - 10 firewall application log of view, I can see my rise in the number of the 20 attacks - it is only today.Norton anti-virus gateway, 3 Nimda virus infected message has been destroyed as long as they tried to close my company mail server report Ipswitch.What a great day.The invention of Microsoft Office 2010 is a big change of the world.

Nimda works in two ways.The first is the most like the old OTD: how to use Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook handle MIME attachments to e-mail address list access hole, and then spread as your address list, each person their own accessories.Second, the use of more obscure Unicode Web Access vulnerabilities.This trick can be played in Internet Information Server 4.0 and 5.0.With it, the server can be fed to worms malformed URL and then access to documents and Web servers' logical drive folder folder.From there, the more confused you can do, but Nimda do is create their own Web page that prompts site visitors to download an Outlook Express (. Credit EML) and the attached worm fresh copy files.Want to know what makes this really angry?Microsoft has released Nimda treatment.Nimda uses the fixed soon, the disease continue to reach holes.Network traversal fixed at October 17, 2000.The MIME vulnerability?Microsoft fixed in March, 2001 1.I recently proposed a network administrator to update their server patch or pink slipped.I still stand my opinion.Microsoft Office 2007 can give you more convenient life.Of course, only to take care of the current crop.Outlook with it, deeply linked to the operating system, will always be security problems.Therefore, I would like to propose a radical way to prevent OTDs: ban from the enterprise desktop Outlook.Do you think I'm kidding?I am not.Outlook is weak by design.If you want all the power, trade data and with other, like Microsoft Excel and Word, security program code is the price you pay.Even when good users and administrators to patch their software, it is only close the barn door after the horse has fled.Therefore, I think the best thing you can do to make your company - not screaming in their desktop - to give up Outlook now.To be replaced?I like the Pegasus mail - it is free, guys!Eudora also still has its fans, can run on Windows PCs, Macintosh, or even hand.Of course, users can still Nimda in their machines, but they can not spread to others via e-mail.I like the idea.However, despite the prohibition of outlook would be ideal, there is a problem with this alternative.Although they have been or are about to add the latest version of the group / individual scheduling and other personal information management (PIM) functionality, this feature is not with Outlook or Exchange of personal information management compatible.If your employees use Outlook exclusively for e-mail, they are transferred to a Pegasus Mail is really the best solution.If they want more, but you may be stuck in Outlook

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