"Marc D. Williams" wrote:
> Y'know, there was an article in today's paper mentioning something about
> this. One of the reasons for the amazing spread of the virus is
> Outlook. Outlook, by default, will automatically forward messages
> so when folks did their mail thing they unknowingly sent out this virus
> to all the users in their addressbook.
Don't ya just LOVE the wonderful benefits of Microsoft integration!!
> Other mailers such as Netscape Mail, Eudora, etc. don't do that
> since mail forwarding usually requires manual intervention.
> The virus wouldn't have spread so quickly if it weren't for Outlook.
> It only took hours to spread around the world.
>
> "Microsoft's Windows operating system appears on more than 85 percent
> of personal computers. More diversity, experts say, would likely have
> slowed the virus by at least a few hours, maybe a day or two, giving
> network administrators a longer head start."
How ironic that the US gov't agencies were hit so very hard with this
one. Aren't they suing MS for something about forcing bad software on
people...<hehe> -Dean
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