On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:49:15 -0800 (PST), vaibhav samant vaibhav_samant@rediffmail.com wrote:

Any idea how can I protect my LAN against: Mailware / Spyware ActiveX and other malicious codes Virus / worms coming from the HTTP route

Shouldn't this question be posted in the Indian Micro$oft Users Group ?!?

On Thursday 10 Feb 2005 12:00 pm, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:

On Thursday 10 Feb 2005 11:15 am, vaibhav samant wrote:

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Hi,

Any idea how can I protect my LAN against:

Mailware / Spyware ActiveX and other malicious codes Virus / worms coming from the HTTP route

set up amavisd and spamassassin

sorry, didnt read your mail properly - use firefox

Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:

On Thursday 10 Feb 2005 11:15 am, vaibhav samant wrote:

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Hi,

Any idea how can I protect my LAN against:

Mailware / Spyware ActiveX and other malicious codes Virus / worms coming from the HTTP route

set up amavisd and spamassassin

But didnt he say through HTTP ? I think Dansguardian will be a better option

On 10/02/05 09:06 -0500, Satya wrote:

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 05:45:03AM -0000, vaibhav samant wrote:

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Any idea how can I protect my LAN against:

Mailware / Spyware

Turn off port 25.

How does that help?

Install a malware scanner on your mail gateway and all vulnerable boxes.

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ActiveX and other malicious codes

Don't use Internet Explorer. It's pretty much the only one that does ActiveX.

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Virus / worms coming from the HTTP route

Eh? That's a new one.

The same ones that exploit IE with ActiveX holes :). Not new, just getting more popular. IIRC, Nimda was the first large one to use this.

Devdas Bhagat