Bingo. And consider the number of emails you receive giving step by step directions. Has anyone experienced the Virus Hoaxes that make you delete things like sulfnbk.exe? Anyone know any mindless users who followed directions on it? I know lots, and what would stop a virus writer to put those steps, make up some believable reason to the non-computer literate person to tell them to save, go to start->run->cmd.exe, blah, blah, blah, blah...... It is most definately a security feature because it can easily be used to prey on the ignorance of others.

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