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

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Well said Mark.

Although I should add ( So.'s not to appear totally anti M$ ) in my
Dad's online business Outlook seems to outperform Eudora and
Netscape.
the Find feature seems easier to use- it can make a difference when
you subbing to several opt in lists or safe lists
Outlooks ease of displaying html and sending web pages that are not
attachments (well I think they are attachments but they also show the
whole page) is better than
either one of the alternatives I discribed above.
Outlooks "make a new rule' filter sucks real bad though IMHO
Eudora does alot of really neat things..but the window displays a
mail much too small for my liking
Netscape Messgenger doesnt seem to be able to automatically sign pgp.

they all do different things. the aol mailer does very little
(outside of being so easy to run/setup)

your supposed to be able to just disable vbs scripting, since most
people don't use the feature.
I think its in control panel/setup, next to where you make a
bootdisk.
David


Mark Symonds wrote:

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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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