On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 08:24:43AM -0400, M. Adam Davis wrote:

> virus, and determine a plan of action.  Here's the expensive part:  While a
> script can get rid of most traces of the virus, and a few filters can keep it
> from spreading much more, thousands of emails have been lost/dropped, schedules
> have been moved back, parts aren't on order (and they are supposed to be), etc,

Quite frankly, if a company of that kind of size allows its employees to read
email with Outlook Express (or any Microsoft product, for that matter) then
they deserve what they get. If email is that important to the company, then
it should be bulletproof.

A company of that size should have at least a couple of staff devoted to
risk management.  It became very obvious some time ago that Outlook express
is as full of holes as a Swiss cheese, and any risk manager who hadn't taken
steps to prevent this kind of attack should be fired (given that there were
ample precedents for it).

But then maybe they don't back their data up either.

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