I've been having a rough morning, so glad to know it wasn't one more thing :)
Chalk it all up to frustration on my part. On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Dan Monjar wrote: > William Sutton wrote: > > The points are: > > - If I can rename it anyway, then all that does is provide a slightly > > higher barrier to the stupidity level, meaning I can still send some luser > > a file labeled "your program.dat", tell them that it is useful in some way > > or other, and have them wipe out their system. > > - Likewise, it makes it a serious pain in my backside to send them > > legitimate programs (the more so since the IS folks took away IM file > > transfer). > > > > In other words, it puts a crimp in my ability to do my job and doesn't (as > > far as I can analyze the situation) do anything beyond stop Outlook from > > being stupid. Frankly that's not a sufficient reason to me. > > > > Of course the fact that I have to use Windows to do UNIX development work > > is a whole other sore point... > > > > I should also like to point out that can/can't and will/won't are very > > different things. I agree that "can't" is probably indicative that > > someone shouldn't be using a computer. "won't" is debatable. "doesn't > > want to" is a whole other option that you left out in what sounded like a > > targeted attack :) > > > > no, certainly not targeted at you. Apologies if it seemed so. > > The policy won't stopped a "targeted" attack. If I trust you and you > abuse that trust by sending me something bad then I am screwed. But the > policy does stop the millions of messages being spewed out by infected > machines. > > I honestly cannot see the "serious pain" aspect of this. Copy prog.exe > to prog.exx and mail it to me. When I detach the file I do a save as to > prog.exe. where's the pain? > > -- William Sutton 8003 Benaroya Ln B-7 Huntsville AL 35802 M: 919.604.2502 -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
