, 2004-02-20
If hundreds of thousands of people are still blindly clicking on attachments in their email, is there any hope of mitigating the threat of hundreds of thousands of compromised systems with open backdoors?
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Knock, Knock, Knock
2004-02-20
Anonymous (2 replies)
Anonymous (2 replies)
Some people have great difficulty remembering that before outlook, one of IT departments biggest problems was to distribute mails telling people that you can't get viruses from reading email.
This is bad application design.
double click on jpg -> show picture
double click on text -> show document
double click on .exe executable -> warning that this is not a supported file format
double click on word document executable -> warning that this is not a supported file format
very easy.
Anything else is a deliberate attempt to sacrifice other people's security for the mail programs commercial gain and should be treated as the cyber-terrorism it is.
Floggings too good for them.
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