Re[2]: [ OT] Special security Alert!

[Toby Tremayne]

Hi Joshua, JM> Again, saying that your email client is superior because it's not JM> affected by a virus written specifically to exploit a vulnerability in JM> Outlook makes no sense. actually KMail still has a long way to go, but it's nice to use - TheBat however is by any stretch of the imagination far superior to outlook as an email client, least of all because of the virus thing ;) JM> Please don't take this as a defense of shoddy code now, I certainly hold JM> MS somewhat responsible, but more than MS, the users are to blame for JM> not protecting themselves. hehe I took that much as given already, but as for the users being to blame, (bear in mind I'm playing devils advocate here) while I think it would be great if all users could be forced to pay a little more attention, what we're talking about is not so much users protecting themselves from virii as protecting themselves from their email client. As fas as the avergae user is concerned, outlook express is part of windows which is part of their computer, so why should they expect to have to take precautions against it? Anti virus software is a precaution you employ to avoid inadvertantly downloading / copying a file that has a virus and getting infected, however you should be able to download your email safely without having to do anything major at all. If you're then dumb enough to go executing anything you receive in your mail then you deserve everything you get, however you shouldn't need to deal with protecting your machine from whatever outlook think's is best for you ;) cheers, Toby JM> Joshua Miller JM> [EMAIL PROTECTED] JM> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
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