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Foot and Mouth Virus and Outlook
Alright, maybe it's the media saturation of "foot and mouth" disease/virus which seems quite similar to the LOVEBUG frenzy, or maybe it's just the bio major in me - but "the report" from the CDC concerning Outlook Express and foot-and-mouth made me spew coffee out of my nose.
Oh, sorry - I thought it said "foot IN mouth."
It's quick and highly contagious. Some bacterial infections can be very dangerous because of those characteristics... bacteria are much more robust and eager destroyers of body tissue than viruses, if less insidious. Victims of bacterial meningitis sometimes go to sleep with what they think is just a headache and wake up dead. Victims of flesh-eating bacteria sometimes have limbs amputated to save them from an uncurable spreading necrosis.
Underestimate the mighty bacteria at your peril.
Foot & Mouth (Hoof & Mouth n N. America I believe) is not Anthrax.
F&M is viral, Anthrax is bacterial.
F&M is not dangerous to humans. Anthrax is.
The same with Operating Systems. The dominance of Microsoft and in particular their insecure mail client causes more trouble that it would otherwise if there was a variety out the.
Reducing the number of species/platforms, which is which what markets forces do is actually not good economic sense.
Think of it. The shere idea of it rings in money! I bet 98% of the virus writers out there work for a anti-virus company. Think of the market share
No doubt Microsoft would cash in on the deal and build a mass email system with a built-in virus transfer protocal.
No doubt they made AxtiveX insecure. Where does everyone go? That's right Windows Update a web based ActiveX control. Now when ever you update Microsoft get privlaged access to your machine.
It's all part of the big picture. The appocalypse
"Oh my, what is that?"
"Is it a bird?"
"Is it a plane?"
"No, It's a flamming gerbal!?"
"Oh My Gods! It's Amageddon!"
"Remember, who is the boss of you!"
> SELECT * FROM brain_cells WHERE synaptic_rate > 0
0 row returned
So, they piled up all my mail in an enormous pile, waited several weeks to allow a horrible stentch to issue forth, and then burned it.
What has the world come to?
Although it is true that the bovine Foot-and-Mouth disease is not spread via Microsoft Outlook, a close relative to this same virus, the Foot-in-Mouth virus is spread quite rapidly via Outlook.
The Foot-in-Mouth virus is a particularly embarrassing one, which scans all the email you have sent and received with a particular contact, getting a good sense of your relationship with that person. It then sends a series of emails in your name to that contact saying many things you would be very embarrassed about later.
The effects of this virus are very similar to those produced by the psychological condition "Typing while drunk", and researchers are working very hard to examine whether any causal link exists between the this virus, its bovin cousin and alcohol-induced computer use.
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