Re: Microsoft to Blame for 'Love Bug'?

[The Badger <badger () LIZA ST-ELIZABETH EDU>]

  Sucks that Windows is the market leader, eh?  I suppose my point is this:
Unix advocates will squalk and preach themselves blue in the face about
vulnerabilities in Windows and MS products in general.  They will work
themselves into tizzies about the superiority of their little penguins, and
they may do so with good reason.  They may even slap on some SPF 200, emerge
from their caves, and burn Billy Gates in effigy.  Windows is still the
market leader.  Your boss (who still uses a mouse with two hands), does not
want Unix.  The HR director can't deal with having an icon dragged from one
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.

*pant*.. *pant*

-badger
----- Original Message -----
From: Felix von Leitner <leitner () VIM ORG>
To: <ISN () SECURITYFOCUS COM>
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 4:58 AM
Subject: Re: [ISN] Microsoft to Blame for 'Love Bug'? (fwd)


> > 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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