At 2003-09-23T21:16:02Z, Ray <ray.list@powerweb.net> writes: > perhaps if someone wrote the "don't f*&$ open me"[1] virus and had it go > through a little tutorial about why not to open unknow attachments have > message go something like "I was foolish enough to open the attachment, > and since you are at risk of getting a message from me with a virus, this > attachment has forwarded itsself to you" Indeed. You know, we're going through a lot of effort and hypothesizing do to exactly one problem: Outlook* makes it easy for uneducated users to do stupidly dangerous things. That's it - the whole problem. You don't get junk from Macs or Mozilla users, and those are nice, easy-to-use GUI clients. We're having this entire conversation simply because Microsoft refuses to make it more difficult to execute an attached file than clicking on an attachment icon. Out of curiosity, are there *any* legitimate reasons at all why you'd want to mail an uncompressed executable to someone? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est.
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