This is the first thing I've seen that supports the little guy. Software developers triumph, middle class triumphs, the only ones who lose are those trying to sell thier software. If you truly create something innovative people will still purchase it, but the mundane things that everyone needs are just being recreated over and over again for profit. For example spyware blockers and firewalls. These should be free and open because of their great need, its nearly impossible to properly function on the internet without them.
Even non service pack 2 xp machines should tell you what type of file it is you are downloading when it gives you the option to save or open, but I could possibly be wrong.
If you bother to upgrade to newer versions of windows, SP2 will ask you if you want to open or download the file, which is usually called something like http://12.234.426.43/picofme.jpg but it tells you this is an executable, so if you are still dumb enough to run it after it tells you "Hey! I'm an executable hiding as a jpeg", then you deserve to be infected and so do your friends.
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This is the first thing I've seen that supports the little guy. Software developers triumph, middle class triumphs, the only ones who lose are those trying to sell thier software. If you truly create something innovative people will still purchase it, but the mundane things that everyone needs are just being recreated over and over again for profit. For example spyware blockers and firewalls. These should be free and open because of their great need, its nearly impossible to properly function on the internet without them.
Even non service pack 2 xp machines should tell you what type of file it is you are downloading when it gives you the option to save or open, but I could possibly be wrong.
If you bother to upgrade to newer versions of windows, SP2 will ask you if you want to open or download the file, which is usually called something like http://12.234.426.43/picofme.jpg but it tells you this is an executable, so if you are still dumb enough to run it after it tells you "Hey! I'm an executable hiding as a jpeg", then you deserve to be infected and so do your friends.