On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
Viruses in e-mail are a problem specific to Windows. In fact, I don't
know why they aren't simply called Windows viruses, as that is the only
operating system left for which viruses are seen in the wild on a
regular basis.
Perhaps because people have figured out that it goes without saying that
it is a MS problem. Or, MS having killed off most of the computing
industry and thus most of the advertising, has become such an essential
advertising account that editors fear to annoy them.
A virus is only harmless data, unless your system and mail client is
designed to run it on sight. Same goes for other applications.
If OOo could run MS macros, then it would be a problem for OOo too.
Depending on how the macros are implemented in OOo it may become a problem
anyway.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents endanger the legal certainty of software.
Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market open.
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