On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 05:09:41PM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote:
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".
My mother-in-law happily used Eudora on windows 95 for years, and never got infected with anything. Then she managed to induce Eudora into forgetting her POP account password, and called the ISP so she could reset it. Since she had "mail problems", and since she was using an unsupported mail client, the ISP in question refused to help her until she had installed outlook express. They then gave her instructions on how to set that up with an appropriate password. The persistent flaws in the design of Outlook Express are most definitely Microsoft's fault, but ISPs are not helping in stemming the spread of the sickness. Joe - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog