Hi Joe, We could state that in our advisories, However, wouldn't it be on the same line as: Avoid car accidents, disable all petrol and diesel? Personally I would love to have the death rate on the road reduced to 0. If this is realistically achievable right now is another question. The reality is that Microsoft and all its products are a very large part of the global business world right now. Just as unsafe cars. We can make them somewhat safer by awareness and vigilance, just as driving a car. That is not to say that we don't agree with you, but the other side of the coin is that there are plenty of "non-windows" threats around; SSL, apache etc also have their own vulnerabilities. Arjen -----Original Message----- From: Joe Abley [mailto:jabley(a)automagic.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 3:40 PM To: Arjen De Landgraaf Cc: 'Simon Byrnand'; nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: Virus alert On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 03:16:57PM +1200, Arjen De Landgraaf wrote:
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It continues to amazme me that the preventative measure "do not use microsoft e-mail clients", or even "do not use windows" is never suggested as part of these bulletins. I think ISP and IT helpdesks of the world would do everybody a big favour if they just stopped supporting mail clients which make it so trivial to execute encapsulated scripts. "I propose that we deploy Microsoft Outlook". "You're fired. Never insult us with your presence again." Mmm. "I have a problem with my e-mail." "Does it say Outlook Express at the top of the window?" "Yes." <click> brrrrrrr Reply-To set :) Joe - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog