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Re: Amusing security advice from Microsoft
From: der Mouse <mouse () rodents montreal qc ca>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:31:27 -0400 (EDT)
I found Microsoft's advice pretty amusing for dealing with the new "zero-day" ANI security flaw in Windows:
"As a best practice, users should always exercise extreme caution when opening or viewing unsolicited emails and email attachments from both known and unknown sources."
I don't even know what "exercise extreme caution" means.
"Don't use Microsoft software" is how I would prefer to interpret it. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse () rodents montreal qc ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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