Re: Why is "thebat.exe" from tb142f.zip so big?

[Andrey G. Sergeev (AKA Andris)]

Hello!


Saturday, May 13, 2000, 17:03, Allie Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

AM> A download URL for application distribution is just as convenient.

AM> A small magazine is fine by e-mail. Are you saying you'd prefer if Ritlabs
AM> e-mailed the new betas to you?

Fully agreed with Allie Martin here I should add my own thoughts about
the $Subj.

There are so many security publications on the Net and also in offline
world saying something similar to "never open attachments from untrusted
sources; never open attachments even if you see the known From: field in
e-mail message - first you should check the attached file with the
latest version of your antivirus" so a particular user should think
twice or more before opening an attachments. However it's not so simple
- and we all were able to see what can happen if this very basic
security guideline was ignored by _that_ pesky users :-) - remember
ILoveYou worm, yes? So if we are talking about "binaries in e-mail - to
send or not to send, this is question" please don't forget about some
psychological issues here. This is IMHO the first factor.

Someone can point me to a program like PGP, GNU PG etc. Yes, this is a
perfect solution but in some posting back there was an excellent phrase
by Oliver Sturm - "Alternatively, they'd have to go learn how to use
other internet services, which they won't".
The key word is ---------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^. This is a second factor - a
man's lazyness.

I couldn't remember a (known) software vendor which distributes a new
versions of its products, patches etc. by e-mail. Usually they send a
message to a registered users providing some information about the new
releases and possibly include a URL to a (secured) download site.
However you *can* receive a binary code from this vendors *but* the most
applicable case for it will be if you are communicating with tecnhical
support about some issue specific to your system. This is a 3rd factor -
an industrial practice.


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Best regards,

Andrey G. Sergeev (AKA Andris)     http://www.andris.msk.ru/

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