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This report explains why e-mail-borne viruses are such a threat, describes trade-offs that organizations must understand and use when formulating plans, and offers specific recommendations that will help them

The danger is posed by a lack of understanding of the threat, and the existence of scripting engines and e-mail automation APIs on client PCs

Strategies for preventing a virus from ever getting on to a system, avoiding activation of a virus that does make it on to a system, limiting the permanent damage an activated virus can do, and preventing the virus from reproducing and spreading

Technologies that will help combat e-mail viruses in the future, such as public key infrastructures and digital signatures