Dave Watts wrote:
> Admittedly, the openness and interrelatedness of Microsoft Office, Outlook,
> IE, and WSH make it easy to write relatively powerful viruses, the ultimate
> responsibility for safe computer use, like safe driving and safe sex, lies
> with the one behind the wheel.
This would be a valid comment if most people were aware of the problems that
exist hidden in their email client.
They aren't.
How many people do you know who are aware of the WSH, what it can do and how
to disable it if they want to?
MS knows these features are insecure and they continue to ship Outlook with
them enabled by default.
How is it then the end users fault when the software does something untoward
that they are not aware it can do?
> How many people have received legitimate messages from someone they know
> (but aren't already in a relationship with) saying "I love you"? Are we all
> that desperate for love, that we'll just double-click blindly for it? How
> many people regularly receive salacious pictures of female tennis stars from
> their coworkers?
This isn't really the point though. The fact remains that some virus writer
could put anything in the subject line. The choice of subjects and
attachment material reflects more on the writer of the virus than anything
else.
Besides, wasn't there one virus that had a subject line similar to "Here is
that information you requested"? Hardly anything lascivious there.
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