On Tuesday, September 10, 2002, at 08:26 PM, Matthew Luckie wrote:
The best AV solution I can think of is for all possible holes and exploits in Microsoft mail clients to be exploited as soon as possible, and as violently as possible. Maybe if that happens fewer people will run stupid Microsoft mail clients, and the whole issue will just go away.
Users don't care. They will run a PC infested with viruses until it becomes unusable. When it becomes unusable, they will just put the factory recovery CD back into it and start again with old versions of the software that got them into trouble in the first place.
At least there's a brief period of quiet while they're off the air, reinstalling.
Let's not pretend that pine is any more secure (yes, the very email client I'm using now).
So don't use it then! This is not rocket science. Joe - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog