On Fri, 11 May 2007 09:38:44 EDT, Ed Finnell wrote: > >Yeah, some vendors better than others in many respects. We had our entire >Financial Accounting Network infected from a vendors CD! Here just put this on, >it's great, solve all your problems....three days later it was pretty good. > There's some inference to be drawn here, that a conscientious vendor should avoid any use of Windows in mastering and producing media containing software for non-Windows platforms, and likewise avoid any format that constrains the customer to use Windows. Self-extracting .exe archives seem particularly risky.
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