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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.

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