On 12/15/2011 06:52 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 15:11 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 12/15/2011 02:53 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Which email virus are you thinking of? I don't know any that would work
on both Windows and Linux, but no doubt someone has tried.
I'm not thinking of any of them. I was using email viruses as an
example of something we used to think was impossible.
Was there such a time?
Back before the first outbreak, most techs were busy telling people that
all the rumors of people's computers being infected just by opening an
email were just that; it couldn't happen. Then we learned better.
Note that this was before MS created Outlook, IOW those of us who place
the bulk of the virus problem at MS' door are not just being paranoid.
MS had to have known this was possible, they just didn't care.
Back then, I referred to Outlook as "a mass of bugs held together by
security holes."
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