<![CDATA[Hi Joshua,
I agree it's unfair to blame a vendor for a user's lack of effort,
but at the same time I think it's perfectly fair to apportion at
least part of the blame on vendors who release product after
product with the *same* vulnerabilities, and don't even provide
their users with any info or help on how this is a problem.
Outlook and it's variants have this problems because of a "feature"
that's been there for quite some time now, and which is on by
default - the vast majority of users don't know enough to even find
out what these things mean.
As for the email client test, I use kmail on linux at home, and
theBat on windows at work - neither of them have any issues with
these worms etc because none of them execute code within an email
without my permission - even html etc ;)
cheers,
Toby
Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 12:51:24 PM, you wrote:
JM> I stopped using Outlook recently, but mainly because I finally found a
JM> way to move all my old email over to my Mac.
JM> It's somewhat unfair to blame Microsoft for the virii being passed
JM> around, although it's typical of society - if you don't properly educate
JM> yourself on how to use your software and then you get infected it has to
JM> be someone else' fault. If you stab yourself in the eye with a pencil
JM> it's not Dixon Ticonderoga's fault because they didn't make your pencil
JM> dull, it's your fault because you don't know how to safely use the tools
JM> you're given to work with.
JM> You would think that after 3, 4, 5, 20 virii make their way to your
JM> Outlook inbox and infect your machine that you would take the time
JM> necessary to learn how to protect yourself, but alas, as we Americans
JM> typically do, we go to the opposite extreme and demand that someone else
JM> do something to shield us from having to learn something that may be
JM> harder than making toast.
JM> Anyway, I'd challenge anyone out there to put their email client in the
JM> hands of several million uninformed, novice users and see if it could
JM> withstand the inevitable onslaught of virii that would be written
JM> specifically to exploit its weaknesses.
JM> Just my opinion though,
JM> Joshua Miller
JM> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JM>
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