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

When Hillary...of mountain climbing fame...was asked why he "was climbing
the mountain?" he answered because it was there.
So why do hackers target Outlook?  Because that where the mountain is.
If 90% of users used a program called Inlook and then it would be
successfully targeted...and its maker would be broken up as a monopoly.
It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that all attachments can be
programmed to carry virus.  So any idiot that will open the attachment is
just advancing through the school of hard knocks.
So keep on clicking...that way we know you are learning.

Russell Griechen
----- Original Message -----
#From: Mark Symonds <mark@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <computers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 7:39 PM
Subject: [COMP] Re: Microsoft Outlook and Virus's..a question?


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> ----- Original Message -----
> 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?
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> > 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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