The Security Mentor

There's a long list of tips to educate employees about virus prevention at Watchguard's site.

The most helpful included some technical and some management techniques:

• If you're still using Outlook for email, have everyone turn off the Preview pane from the View menu. I question the need for this if you've got everything else right, but it does close off a way for viruses to execute when someone simply selects an email message


• Find some way other than attachments to send files around, then have everyone go to the Security tab in Outlook and set it to prevent running or saving attachments.


• Add software to your email server that blocks, quarantines or renames attachments. This requires some expertise.

Personally I'd consider training the users with pranks. Get a free email account, send your employees an attachment, and have it be a program that plays an embarrassing sound file like "look everybody, I opened an attachment!" on the computer's speakers.