[glorgau]

And it wasn't terrorism before 9/11?

MS operating systems are hit by the most viri because they are the easiest thing to hit. The technical sophistication of the latest MSBlaster virus was childish. The idea of having executables attached to email in Outlook and Outlook Express is downright stupid. MS could have cleared much of their vunerability if they didn't want to leave "hooks" in their applications. The "hooks" are their so they can screw over any possible competitors. this is well documented behavior since the DR-DOS, Lotus 1-2-3 days. To say that this is "terrorism" is nothing more than the opportunistic ramblings of some marketing droid. Can we all say FUD?

< rant >
It is just pathetic what most moron users will accept in the computing world. People work with the melange that is a Microsoft operating system and think that is the way the world must be.
< /rant >

[Pro-Bush]

Tell me how you REALLY feel about Microsoft...</sarcasm

[Graybeard58]

"The idea of having executables attached to email in Outlook and Outlook Express is downright stupid. MS could have cleared much of their vunerability if they didn't want to leave "hooks" in their applications".

BINGO!

[headsonpikes]

Your post #20 confirms what my computer-savvy friends tell me, with a lot of feeling!

LOL!

[NCjim]

A lot of the holes are also sloppy programming, i.e. input data is allowed to overrun the buffer into which it is being read. Programming 101 says that you do bounds checking on input to prevent overrun. Sloppy programming can occur when code is written too carelessly or when quality does not matter since there is no competition.

[mikegi]

The idea of having executables attached to email in Outlook and Outlook Express is downright stupid.

When you're done frothing at the mouth, try taking a look at RFC 1521 where the "application" type is a standard mime type. It's no different than attaching a jpg or any other none text data. The problem is that people click on these attachments without checking to see if they viruses.

MS could have cleared much of their vunerability if they didn't want to leave "hooks" in their applications. The "hooks" are their so they can screw over any possible competitors. this is well documented behavior since the DR-DOS, Lotus 1-2-3 days.

Show me the documentation. Do you know about the "app compatibility" flags in win9x to maintain backwards compatibility with ill-behaved applications? Do you know that Win9x has hundreds of little patches in it to cover up bad behavior in applications - like using uninitialized local variables that happen to work on previous versions of Windows.

Have you ever run a kernel debugger on Windows to see where the faults actually occur? Show me a fault that occurs in Windows and not a third party driver. I'm not saying that MSFT produces flawless operating systems, just that some "moron think-they-know-it-all" types blame Microsoft for every problem in the computer world.