Re: Social Engineering

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 01/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 05:46:50 GMT

In article <WQkSb.1232$Q63.1212@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk>,
 Ben Measures <saint_abroadremove@removehotmail.com> wrote:

> >Angela Kahealani <angela@kahealani.com> wrote in
> >news:101dfpebjjkm1c3@corp.supernews.com:
> >Simply refusing to use Outlook Express would make the computer world 95%
> >safer. Forget Windows - Windows is fine without OE and IE as gaping
> >security breeches, open to allow exploiters to harm your system.
>
> There are some viruses that can infect your computer without using OE or
> IE. In fact, those are the viruses that have been most sucessful.

There may be some, but the most problems in the past few years have
indeed come from email worms that depend on OE. Maybe 95% is
overstating it, but I'd guess it's at least 75%. 

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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