On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 20:40:50 -0500, Roger Turk wrote:
> I just received an e-mail on another listservice that I subscribe to that
> contained an attachment that had about a dozen virii in it. The attachment
> was large for a virus, 18K.
> "Looking" at the attachment, I was gratified to see, "This requires Win32."
> The virii were virtually all, <long_filename>.TXT.pif.
It is my understanding that most Windows email clients are of such
a defective design that they will automagically attach virii to email
messages without the user even being aware of what is going on unless
someone who receives the message should inform him of the problem.
Designers and manufacturers of products that can easily be proven to be
defective and capable of causing great damage and harm can be sued big
time and the lawyers can make a pile of money. Why aren't they suing the
designers, producers, and vendors of Windows email clients? If they would
just sue them, then the people that are producing the buggy software
would have to clean up their act, and the threat of virii attack would be
minimized, and all the good netizens would be happy, and even the lawyers
would be happy gloating over their success and their money. In short,
almost everyone except the defendant is happy whenever a lawsuit is won for
a good and just cause. All Windows email clients that fail to meet
safety standards should be recalled.
All the best,
Sam Heywood
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