Would Outlook be relatively safe if...

[bandXtrb]

Would using Outlook be relatively safe if the user were to apply updates as soon as possible, do virus scans and definiton updates regularly, and follow other known security tips?

Is it a bad practice to use the Contacts feature?

 

[TallBill]

the only way outlook is safe is if you uninstall it

 

[Burnt]

Outlook isn't safe? Crap...

 

[gopunk]

yes, i think so. it's funny how i never get viruses... i also never open strange attachments... i wonder if they're somehow related....

 

[yakko]

I have never got a virus through Outlook or Outlook Express.

 

[trmiv]

I've never gotten a virus from Outlook. But, I also never open file attachments from people I don't know, and I scan ones from people I do.

 

[tcsenter]

I've been sent a dozen viruses via email, but I've never released one, and I'm using the latest Outlook Express with no security updates and no email virus scanner, but I disabled my message preview pane.

 

[QTPie]

Outlook is relatively safe if...

you don't use it.
My company's been using Eudora. and Netscape, too.
You'll be surprised that many ppl don't even know
what Outlook version they use.

 

[Kadarin]

Who was it, The Register or someone, who called Outlook an excellent Virus Deployment Tool... There are reasons why viruses target Outlook.

-j

 

[uclaxman]

outlook spreads viruses like wildfire

 

[KingHam]

<< Who was it, The Register or someone, who called Outlook an excellent Virus Deployment Tool... There are reasons why viruses target Outlook.

-j >>



It is only common sense that the most widely used email program will have viruses written for it. Besides virtually every virus that is spread through Outlook is a result of an ID10T error.

KingHam

 

[woodly6]

The best thing to do with your contact list on Outlook or Outlook Express is to create a fake contact with a invalid e-mail. Using the name of all zeros will put it at the top and thus negate all virusii that try to send themselves to all the contacts on the list.

 

[FrontlineWarrior]

can you get a virus or anything like that by viewing the html in the preview pane?

 

[d1abolic]

The only way you can make Outlook "relatively safe" is by unplugging your modem. 😀

 

[Bozz]

<< The best thing to do with your contact list on Outlook or Outlook Express is to create a fake contact with a invalid e-mail. Using the name of all zeros will put it at the top and thus negate all virusii that try to send themselves to all the contacts on the list. >>



Another sucker that fell for that lie 🙂

 

[RSI]

<<

<< The best thing to do with your contact list on Outlook or Outlook Express is to create a fake contact with a invalid e-mail. Using the name of all zeros will put it at the top and thus negate all virusii that try to send themselves to all the contacts on the list. >>



Another sucker that fell for that lie 🙂 >>

Not a lie. My aunt who works at a college uses the same trick and has had very successful results (has received infected items that would normally have sent themselves out, but it stopped at the first bogus email at the top of the contact list).

-RSI