virus warnings are the new virus...

[Brett Dikeman]

Contrary to popular belief, the entire world does not run Outlook.  I
really don't think that messages about a specific mail client's
security vulnerabilities are appropriate for any automobile
enthusiast mailing list.

Subscribe to a mailing list or email bulletin service that announces
new viruses or something, if you feel the need to be alerted the
second something comes out that can get into your insecure email
program...and leave the rest of us alone, please; some of us run
operating systems that aren't massively insecure and email clients
that don't execute anything that happens to drift in through the door
that asks to be(you don't let strangers into your house, or a car
which lets people steal the radio...so why should you run an
operating system and email program that basically let someone on the
other side of the planet with a $10 programming book into your
computer?)

Plus, it is my strong personal belief that if you're stupid enough to
run Outlook(with or without antivirus protection, since usually these
viruses come drifting in before your antivirus software gets the
updated definitions) OR Windows(since IE is so tightly integrated,
and new exploits for -IE- seem to be coming out every other month)
you deserve -everything- you get.  Darwinism at its finest...I just
wish it would hurry up.  Every time one of these windows viruses
comes out, it floods the internet with traffic that is becoming
increasingly dangerous to the health of the internet...and it is
-entirely- the fault of Microsoft.

   And then there's the whole notification-overkill issue.  I usually
get at least 3 warnings from the qlist, and 2 more from the
stagecraft mailing list I'm on.  Then, when I go downstairs and turn
on the news before dinner, I get it there(along with some cute little
graphic of a computer and a broken lock or similar)...then on the
later national evening news...then the next morning in the paper...

B
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