At 17:03 1/10/02 +1200, James Spooner wrote:
It all comes down to how you drive the car, if you are reckless when driving, fail to keep up with the warrant of fitness etc. The cars safety can rapidly degrade.
This is how I perceive the Email Clients problem, people use their computers in a reckless manner, perhaps due to the exorbident(sp?) claims of the manufacturers 'safety' but mainly due to ignorance.
Unfortunately, in unpatched versions of Outlook Express, simply receiving an email and clicking on it to read it constitutes "reckless behaviour", and this is one of the main problems.... And before you say "but updates are available" what percentage of dialup based Outlook Express users are willing to spend hours online downloading an 18MB update to Internet Explorer to address the issue ? (And how many other people don't even realise there is an issue in the first place, or realise that programs might need updating) Bugs (and bad design) causing automatic and/or silent execution of incomming viruses are *THE* number one reason that email viruses are so incredibly popular these days and the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of Microsoft with their Outlook, and Outlook Express "products". Regards, Simon - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog