Well, most Linux users could give a virus 1 and 2, should it infect their machine. At present 3 would require user intervention on most mail clients, but there's no in principle problem with installing programs as a regular user. People do it all the time, for perfectly legitmate reasons. And some Windows viruses still also require user intervention for 3, although they avoid it if they can, but that doesn't mean those viruses don't spread.
I agree with you entirely Mary.
Also note that for some of these recent Bagle and netsky variants, the user has to read the email, open the zip file, enter the password from the body of the message in the zip file, then double click the exe file inside the zip file!
it really only proves people are pretty dumb.
I reckon if I wrote a virus that attached a password protected zip file with the subject hey check out this virus I wrote, people would still open it!
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