Re: And another one just for fun!

From: do not spam (spam)_at_xivic.prima.de)
Date: 09/21/03 

Date: 21 Sep 2003 21:24:20 +0200

Dave J <requiem@freeuk.com> writes:

>In MsgID<bkcrdl$7jf$1@xivic.prima.de> inside of uk.comp.security,
>'spamtrap' wrote:

>>So what? No OS is as friendly to a virus as windows. It's extremely
>>braindead to run a file as a program when all the user wanted to
>>open that file. But MS are just a bunch of "Barbarians led by Bill
>>Gates".

>Seems like you're missing the point there. There is no such thing as
>to 'open a file as a program',

I didn't write that it was. Besides "Don't open attachments!" appears
to be the Windows users' mantra if what I read in Usenet is a
representative sample. They always use "open" when they mean "open, or
maybe execute, or whatever".

>Admittedly, OTTOMH many of those formats were microsoft designs, and
             ^^^^^^
That's as meaningless as GRÖFAZ to you. AKÜFI, anybody? 

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conformity or vanity, the Real is replaced by a comforting lie.
  -- Integritas, Consonantia, Claritas

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