"Dave Mundt" wrote in message
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Greetings and Salutations.

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 17:30:29 GMT, "Gary Glaenzer"
wrote:

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 ?


my only contribution to this little flame war is
to say that the reason that the virus writers target outlook
and IE is because they have the largest security holes. They,
unlike the other clients you mention, will automatically run
programs that come in as attachments to Email or web pages
without warning the user, or without asking the user if
they should. ONe can turn this off, but, it is not easy
or obvious enough that most folks can and will do it.
Regards
Dave Mundt


it's neither difficult or non-obvious

it's right there under 'Tools', 'options' , 'read' and 'security'