Re: Melissa Virus

[Stefan Paletta]

Bruno Wolff III wrote/schrieb/scribsit:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 07:17:56PM +0200,
>   Stefan Paletta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> So ordinary users would no longer be able to install MS Office...

> I would prefer it if I had different accounts with different levels of
> access on my home MS machine. I don't like installs being able to write
> stuff anywhere making complete uninstalls impossible in some cases.

The point is that an MS Office install _requires_ being able to write
stuff anywhere. (Same with StarOffice on Linux btw, comes with its own
libc.)

Furthermore, users IME
 o don't want to
 o are too stupid
 o start working with admin-privs anyway

Stefan