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Re: Microsoft to Blame for 'Love Bug'?
From: Grant Bayley <gbayley () AUSMAC NET>
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 03:19:16 +1000
section of desktop to another. He does not want Unix. I work for a college in which fully 80% of the on-campus VCR's are still flashing 12:00. We do not want Unix. We want Windows. We want the blasted Word Paperclip. Long ago I read a passage about the folly of allowing a "computer guy" to build and configure an average home user's workstation. To anyone without a clue, flexibility isn't a panacea, it's a curse.
Wouldn't it be nice if those VCRs had a nominally accurate internal clock as do most computers and out of the box, had correct local time and date. In the same way, take your copy of Windows and use it. No dispute there. Wouldn't it be nice, though, if it came configured reasonably securely, ensuring even the most virulent virus or trojaned .exe file could not operate without first warning the user of it's consequences or preventing it from altering critical parts of the system. You can call it hand-holding or whatever, but if Windows had been secured in the first place, out of the box, the problem could not have propagated or had such a devastating effect on those too lazy or "slow" to look beyond the dancing paperclip. Grant Bayley ------------------------------------------------------- Grant Bayley gbayley () ausmac net -IT Manager @ Batey Kazoo (www.kazoo.com.au) -Admin @ AusMac Archive, Wiretapped.net, 2600 Australia www.ausmac.net www.wiretapped.net www.2600.org.au ------------------------------------------------------- ISN is sponsored by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".
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