I'm beginning to think, what with this new virus outbreak today (which seems to be a weekly affair nowadays), that Exchange/Outlook is a total waist of time, it's a constant battle upgrading virus packages and downloading fixes for exploits in 2k. Coz of the amount of users (a university)We are getting hit by these before most virus companies and the internet as a whole has time to update their defs, many times now in the last few weeks we have had to turn off all mail services until the virus protection (no names) updated their defs, sometimes for a whole day.
The same variation of virus is popping up all the time (the one that emails itself to everyone in your address book) this is the main reason it spreads, so why dont Microsoff fix the problem, even if it means taking out some advanced features within outlook/exchange, or rewriting the whole package to stop these exploits.
Life used to be simple, we had Novell with Pegasus mail, even if someone run a dodgy attachment, the virus would be contained locally and would never make the OS to replicate itself.
The bubble will burst soon, people will realise if they go installing MS products, then they become the targets of people who hate/abuse MS and open themselves up to every spotty little virus writer and hacker.
Its time to step back, who really uses their journal, there calender, who cares if their message comes in a nice web style format with pictures and crap... 90% of us just want email with safe attachments, I dont wonna run vbs scripts and exe's automatically from inside my messages.... I wonna read them, not play em...
Microsoft should maybe produce their own antivirus product, something that is also intergrated into the kernel, that can tag/track new viruses before they are officially classified.. As what normal person in their everyday job emails everyone in their address book 10 times a second? Why isn't there an option in Exchange that tells you (the admin) when there is 15000 messages in the queue with the same header and size? The whole thing is just far too open to abuse.
`Email` as a software package, is one of the oldest kinds of computer applications around, it's been about since the birth of LANs and WANs, surely all these exploits should have been ironed out years ago.
I wonder how much money a year is spent by us the end users on antivirus protection, time lost due to infection and clean up costs... All this money comes out of our pockets and goes into `theirs` I'd bet my house that companies like symantic, trend etc pay these teenage virus writers in china and russia a few quid now and again to come up with some quite nasty so they can sell more products. They are obviously also in league with Microsoft, as Bill would have produced his own antivirus product by now and snuffed em out, like other companies that produced useful apps in the past.
Right, is has dragged on far too much.. Sorry for ranting.
(moan mode over)
The same variation of virus is popping up all the time (the one that emails itself to everyone in your address book) this is the main reason it spreads, so why dont Microsoff fix the problem, even if it means taking out some advanced features within outlook/exchange, or rewriting the whole package to stop these exploits.
Life used to be simple, we had Novell with Pegasus mail, even if someone run a dodgy attachment, the virus would be contained locally and would never make the OS to replicate itself.
The bubble will burst soon, people will realise if they go installing MS products, then they become the targets of people who hate/abuse MS and open themselves up to every spotty little virus writer and hacker.
Its time to step back, who really uses their journal, there calender, who cares if their message comes in a nice web style format with pictures and crap... 90% of us just want email with safe attachments, I dont wonna run vbs scripts and exe's automatically from inside my messages.... I wonna read them, not play em...
Microsoft should maybe produce their own antivirus product, something that is also intergrated into the kernel, that can tag/track new viruses before they are officially classified.. As what normal person in their everyday job emails everyone in their address book 10 times a second? Why isn't there an option in Exchange that tells you (the admin) when there is 15000 messages in the queue with the same header and size? The whole thing is just far too open to abuse.
`Email` as a software package, is one of the oldest kinds of computer applications around, it's been about since the birth of LANs and WANs, surely all these exploits should have been ironed out years ago.
I wonder how much money a year is spent by us the end users on antivirus protection, time lost due to infection and clean up costs... All this money comes out of our pockets and goes into `theirs` I'd bet my house that companies like symantic, trend etc pay these teenage virus writers in china and russia a few quid now and again to come up with some quite nasty so they can sell more products. They are obviously also in league with Microsoft, as Bill would have produced his own antivirus product by now and snuffed em out, like other companies that produced useful apps in the past.
Right, is has dragged on far too much.. Sorry for ranting.
(moan mode over)