On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, tom ring wrote: > Right. Keep fooling yourself. The best way to use it is not. Don't get lulled into a false sense of security. Any email program can be vulnerable. Heck, they found a remotely-exploitable hole in *Pine* recently, of all things! But, the plain fact is very few viruses have taken advantage of specific bugs in Outlook anyway. Most people are getting infected the old fashioned way -- by opening attachments. The problem here isn't Outlook, it's user stupidity.
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