• Consider a non-Windows OS for email security

    Posted on July 24, 2017 at 03:27 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    In closing a recent ComputerWorld.com post, Michael Horowitz concluded:

    “If you read email on a Windows computer, do yourself a favor and use a different operating system, at least for email.”

    The article was discussing Windows Scripting Host (WSH), JavaScript and VBScript malicious files, which have been associated with recent malware via emails.

    WSH can execute scripts written in many programming languages. Out of the box, it does JScript and VBScript but other languages, such as Perl and Python, can also be installed.

    Michael details how to disable the WSH component, and to have any such attachments to open in Notepad, which changes them from being script files. You can find the details here.

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