[COMP] Re: Microsoft Outlook and Virus's..a question?


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#From: <CRAZYDOVE@xxxxxxx>
To: <computertalkshop-list@xxxxxxxxx>; <computers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 3:46 PM
Subject: [COMP] Microsoft Outlook and Virus's..a question?


> Can anyone explain to me why MO is targeted for all these virus's? Is it 
> because it's a Microsoft product or because it's got too many 
> vulnerabilities? 

Both.  Microsoft, in their "Freedom to Innovate", created
VBS, a scripting language used for programming Microsoft
applications.  A great idea really -- if they would have 
given any attention whatsoever to security.

Yes, the users are partially to blame but thanks to 
Microsoft's blatant and pervasive disregard of security issues 
people can't even open email attachments anymore on systems
running OE.  These viruses would never have existed if 
Microsoft didn't make it so easy and there should at LEAST be 
an option for users to tell the system, "WARN me before files 
are modified/deleted by VBS scripts and give me the option of 
stopping the script" or something along those lines.  But no, 
I guess that would be too easy.

And this is only the tip of the iceberg.  Microsoft mailers
also enjoy 
reformatting your messages "for you" after you have sent them.  
Ever sent 
a message to a mailing list which looked great in your window 
but then 
when it arrived on the list it looked like this paragraph?

Yet another example of Microsoft's "Freedom to Innovate"...

Bah, I give up.  ;)

</rant>

--
Mark 




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