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Sorry for being completely off-topic, but this is one of my major pet peeves: Bullard, Claude L wrote: > > At the rate of attacks, at some point, Outlook > will be the most secure and virus resistant client > available. It will never be as secure and virus resistant as traditional Unix MUAs which HAVE THE GOOD SENSE NOT TO AUTOMATICALLY RUN EXECUTABLE PROGRAMS THAT ARRIVE IN THE MAIL. Sheesh! Remember the "Good Times" memetic virus that used to make the rounds every September? How we had to carefully explain to the naive freshmen that no, it's not possible to catch a computer virus simply by reading an e-mail message because no programmer would be stupid enough to write a mail reader that would make this possible? Guess we were wrong. (Outlook isn't really the main culprit either; it's Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and other programs that interpret documents as programs and give them the equivalent of root privileges.) --Joe English jenglish@f...
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