Msg: Re: Win 7, after January ?

Thanks for that recommendation, Flash.

I've used a webmail interface for email for many years now.

The ISPs seem to have a strong malware solution *at their end*, as attachments with evil payloads (or highly suspected of same) get automatically deleted by one ISP, or quarantined by another. In the former case, if I look at it the attachment is empty, sometimes with a notice of its deletion. Perhaps this is a tad overzealous in its operation, but I rather doubt that anything of real importance gets zapped. That said, it is still good to know about MailWasher.

Jordan

On Friday, December 6, 2019, 10:49:46 AM PST, flash <flash@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Jordan,

I am still running Win8.1 and do not intend to upgrade/update it.

There are two primary channels of attack: via web browser, and via email.

If you keep your web browser up-to-date, and don't surf to dubious web
sites, you have 90% of the security any newer firewall (e.g.,
Windows10 Defender) would provide anyway.

As for email, I highly recommend MailWasherPro from Firetrust:

https://www.firetrust.com

This allows you to see what emails are on your server, including
whether attachments are on board, and to delete any suspicious emails
and their attachments on the server. They never get onto your harddisk.

The big disadvantages of AV software are: 1) you have to keep
upgrading the definitions to match new previously unseen viruses, and
2) they work only after you've downloaded the nasties onto your harddisk.

MailWasher deletes them from the server, which is much the better
solution, and once MailWasher is installed you don't need to upgrade
anything. You just need to be circumspect about not letting emails
from unknown users onto your system.

I attach a screenshot of MailWasher. You can set blacklists and
friends' lists, filters, and you can bounce spam. Bouncing means that
the sender receives a faked error message from the server indicating
that your email address does not exist. Some spam-robots will then
remove your eddress from their databases.

Any further questions, don't hesitate to ask.

<MD FL>

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