Re: Microsoft to Blame for 'Love Bug'? (fwd)

[Felix von Leitner <leitner () VIM ORG>]

> Forwarded by: Craig Williams <craig.williams () hookrise com>

> my 2c -

> I think this is a lame attempt to pass blame. The virus didn't have to
> be a script - it could have been a simple exe - users would still have
> opened it and the same result would have occured.

Now that is a good point.

EXE virii are solely a Windows problem, too.

Users who "run" executables (be it scripts or EXE files) sent to them
via unencrypted and unsigned email deserve to be shut down.

Your email again proves that Windows is a virus platform.

And I have to admit that writing virii is the only thing that is
actually easier on Windows than on other platforms.

Since people are less productive on Windows than on other platforms
anyway, that leaves "virus platform" as job description for Windows.

> Are we supposed to now disable the running of exe files, I think not ;)

Oh, Microsoft brainwashed you into believing that it is a feature to run
arbitrary code that someone on the Internet sent you?

On Unix you need to find buffer overflows to force people into executing
code, on Windows you just send the code as an attachment?!

Immediate death of the world predicted.  Film@11.

Felix

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