> If OUTLOOK is so damned easy to make viruses for, WHY do all these > LEMMINGS use it??? I still think it should be called "LOOKOUT, VIRUS!!" > Just MHO ;-Deano
Some non-lemmings use it too.<g> I have a fair amount of experience... using and testing various email clients on Unix, Linux, Win98, 95, 3.1, 3.0... OS/2, DOS versions 3.5 and up... and right now I am writing this using Outlook Express v5... with the auto-scripting and preview pane shut off, which reduces the possibility of inadvertently running a malscript to zero. It is not necessarily easier to write a virus for other email clients (except on *nix environments), it has just become the virus author's tool of choice, because it is the most widely used email client, and therefore the one on which a virus will have the best chance of spreading, and the most impact. If all the virus authors of the world suddenly shifted their focus to Eudora, or Calypso, I am fairly certain their combined brain power would allow them to find plenty of security flaws to exploit. Switching email clients is not necessary, to secure one's email... the newbies (heh... I was a newbie myself, just two short years ago) just have to sit down someplace quiet, and read the manual... or in Usenet parlance... RTFM. -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ to master others is nothing. to master yourself is something. . To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
