Thanks for finally some real words of wisdom.

MS isn't totally blamefree but in their well-intended quest to make
computers easy to use it has also made it easy for morons to take advantage
of it.
Billh

"Gary Glaenzer" wrote in message
news:V_Zdb.632150$Ho3.121015@sccrnsc03...
here too:

but if Netscape was the browser of choice for the majority, the viruses
would be targetting Netscape

same for Eudora, Agent or any other

the viruses are targetted at Outlook cause its the most widely used

what's so hard to understand about that, folks ?


"Buzz Lightyear" wrote in message
news:6YZdb.44210$I36.24471@pd7tw3no...
I use outlook express / internet explorer and nothing else.

I dont get these virus's sent to me.

It has way more to do with your personal internet habits, and way less
to
do
with what software you use.


"Perry Murlless" wrote in message
...
That's a crock! Spam, and virus' and worms will be around no matter
what
you
email client is! Get a life Gumby and stop spamming this newsgroup
with
your
idiotic, uninformed ravings!!


"mb" wrote in message
.. .

"DejaVU" wrote in message
...
D dwrate@interbaundotc0m scribed in
:

I received an e-mail today from Microsoft. The subject is
"Newest
Internet Security Upgrade" It has an attachment that Outlook
Express removed as it was/is an executable called "installation
232.exe" The e-mail certainly looks authentic, so I checked The
Microsoft site and lo and behold there is a section on how to
tell if an e-mail is legitimate. There is an actual example of a
hoax and shocking enough it looks just like the email I
received....

So beware there seems to be something new out there...

it is the product of the SWEN virus, trying to send it self to you
and all the rest of us.

Please, will everyone wake up and ditch Outlook already? Outlook
is
the target of allthese things, just about nothing else is
vulnerable.
IF we allpull together and stop using Outlook, the virii and worms
will go away. Same with Spam, never reply, never buy, it will go.

swarf, steam and wind



Oh, purleese.
If we all ditched Outlook/Outlook Express and used 'something else',
then
the virus writers will just target the 'something else'. If you
think
that
all the virus writers want to do is to bug Microsoft, I think you're
very
much mistaken.

Mike