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---- Original Message -----
From: "Earl Adamy" <eadamy@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 2:19 PM
Subject: [RT] Virus infection prevention
[snip]
> b) never open attachments which are not graphics (GIF, JPG) or email
(EML) -
> this expressly includes files of types: EXE, SCR, DOC, XLS, BAT, and CMD.
If
> you are current with Critical Updates, previewing these messages in your
OE
> preview pane will not execute the virus.
>
It seems most virus come as attachments, often with a double extension to
try to fool you, for example filename.txt.exe. If you have Windows set
to hide known extensions, which I think it may do by default, you may only
see filename.txt. The following (from about.com's virus info) explains
how to make sure you can see all extensions.
http://antivirus.about.com/compute/antivirus/library/attachments/blenext.htm
I had to hunt a bit to find out how to change the registry as described in
the last paragraph of the above site. Run regedit.exe . A list of folders
is displayed, one of which is Hkey_Classes_root. Click on that and a long
list is presented. Find Shell scrap and click on that. One or more lines
will show in the righthand window. click on "nevershowExt". Click on edit
| delete. confirm. that line will go away. Then registry | exit.
I think messing with the registry can be a bit risky. I don't know how
important it is to show this one type.
Conrad Bowers
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