> > The problem isn't MUA's. The problem is that users were duped
into
> > executing a program of a malicious intent.
>
> I disagree. The problem is that Microsoft markets their systems to people
> who don't know what they are doing, but includes features in them that
> make it easy for the same people to shoot themselves in the foot.
>
> An MUA marketed at people who don't know a lot about computers, should
not
> have a way to run executable (scripts, native executables, macros or
> whatever) attachments.
It's not just MS. Two people here got the virus. One used Outlook, and
had to specifically open the file. The other had Netscape, and it ran
automatically...
Let's face reality. Clueless users want to be able to easily open up
programs easily. There's enough of them that they're going to get it one
way or another. : )
steve
