Why Micrsoft is at fault, apart from the incredibly stupid concept of WordBasic, is that Outlook allows something that by definition should be a piece of ascii text have effective root access to the entire system. It's just lucky someone particularly malicious hasn't adapted this virus to something like the cih virus, or a nice firmware scrambler. I've repeatedly thought of releasing a jscript virus that is only an explanation of why virii like this are stupid, not real hacking, and how MS should strike macros completely. At least in Outlook. But that little aspiration was quickly squinched by my aversion to 6x4 rooms. I just don't like the geometry. And that's my two cents. CNN will return after this short message. -A
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Why Micrsoft is at fault, apart from the incredibly stupid concept of WordBasic, is that Outlook allows something that by definition should be a piece of ascii text have effective root access to the entire system.
It's just lucky someone particularly malicious hasn't adapted this virus to something like the cih virus, or a nice firmware scrambler.
I've repeatedly thought of releasing a jscript virus that is only an explanation of why virii like this are stupid, not real hacking, and how MS should strike macros completely. At least in Outlook.
But that little aspiration was quickly squinched by my aversion to 6x4 rooms. I just don't like the geometry.
And that's my two cents. CNN will return after this short message. -A