On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:26:39PM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: > >IMO, this is nothing completely new or innovative. ASM has been around a > >long time, even before viruses. It all boils down to people being smart > >enough not to accept attachments form people they don't know, and > >especially don't execute programs sent to you randomly over the > >internet. > > Agreed up to a point. But all you need is one person to open it blind and > then the rest go out to the adsress book and appear (to the next recipients) > to be someone they know. which alters the balance somewhat.
Good point...kind of a "the chain is only as strong as its weakest link" scenario :) -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
