On Tue, 25 Jan 2000 23:26:40 +0800, J J Young wrote:
<snipped Mr. Youmg's lengthy and highly interesting post concerning the KAK>
<virus, aka the KAKworm, that is being transmitted in HTML mail. >
In his post Mr. Young's wrote of the havoc being wrought by a virus known as
the KAKworm being carried in HTML mail. He mentioned instances in which
this virus has been infecting Micro$oft Outlook. This of course is not very
surprising to hear about, considering all the "features" that have been built
into this very poorly designed bloatware product.
There certainly could not have been any added usefulness in having email
software with a capability to generate an HTML version of an ascii text file.
One does nothing to enhance his powers of communication simply by sending
along with a standard email an HTML version of a text file he has typed.
People who do that are simply a nuissance for taking up the extra bandwidth.
Is it possible for this type of virus to infect also some email software
designed along very sound basic principles, such as we find in Insight,
NetTamer, Barebones, NetMail, and SMTPOP and numerous other email programs
that I've failed to mention?
It surprises me very much that consumers are not abandoning Micro$oft as
fast as they ought to. If a major automobile manufacturer were to produce
cars that were always suffering major breakdowns, then the spirit of brand
loyalty would dissipate very rapidly. You would think that consumer behavior
would tend to be the same with other kinds of products as well, but this does
not seem to be the case with computer software.
Sam Heywood
