Oh, please let's talk OSs! Whatever the heck that is. Mike On 9/24/03 8:01 PM, "tom ring" <taring@TARING.ORG> wrote: > Believe me, I have no false sense of security. And I've never caught > anything, > either. I use Pegasus with everyting as tight as possible on my Win box. I > have one of those, and 8 unix boxes. And I don't allow anything on then > except > mutt on one. And mutt can't catch anything, period. > > You are correct, it's the options you don't use that are important. > > But it's still the program you _don't_ use that's most important. > > And then we can start talking OSs. But let's ignore that for now. > > tom > > On 24 Sep 2003 at 21:17, David Brodbeck wrote: > >> 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. >> >> >> David Brodbeck, N8SRE >> '82 Diesel Westfalia >> '94 Honda Civic Si >> > > > ------ > Tom Ring K0TAR, ex-WA2PHW EN34hx > 85 Westphalia GL Albert > 96 Jetta GL The Intimidator > taring@taring.org > > "It is better to go into a turn slow, and come out fast, than to go into a > turn fast > and come out dead." Stirling Moss > > |
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