If you really want to nitpick; if you're following this logic any email client requires an operating system so you need to add that cost to any email client you might be using. Surely you will pull out Linux? Not an option for many people, does not support many of my programs, you can keep it for now.
OE is about as free as it gets and I agree with Mark, you got to be an idiot to click the link or open an attachment with, say, *.scr extention
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I wouldn't say you need to be an idiot. That is someone who can't learn. It might more accurate to say "someone who is ignorant" which just means they don't know. Not knowing is not a crime and all of us are ignorant about some things. There are a lot of computer users who are ignorant of ways to prevent the spread of viruses.
Let's face it. Software that is written which readily allows the spread of viruses is poor software. Other programs don't have this problem. I use Eudora and I have to click on three dialog boxes to run an EXE file from an email. That may not be a cureall, but it is a pretty simple way to help people understand that they may be doing something that is not safe.
Rick
I'd rather not have three dialogs asking me whether I am sure I want to open an attachment or not, thank you.
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Not to *open* an attachment but to *RUN* an attachment. There is a big difference.
-- Keith
Speaking of three dialog boxes, the PHB just got a new Compaq laptop loaded with, drum roll please, VISTA!
Eek! It looks a lot like 98 or XP, but more candy-ish (like transparent title bars on the windows), and even when I tried to run the install on another application CD, I had to click "yes" twice before it would even run the setup program!
I believe their thrust with this product was to make it Aunt Tillie-proof. ;-)
Cheers! Rich
It originally took FOUR "yes!" clicks to rename or create folders at "protected" (e.g., c:\\windows) locations. Service pack 1 dropped this to one, however.
I have a suspicion Microsoft knew UAC was so far "over the top" that they've positioned it such that they can claim a huge "technological improvement" when they go to a more reasonable system -- like Linux and Macs have had for years -- on the next version of Windows.
I can't figure out why Uncle Bill hasn't put a team of codemonkeys onto downloading some Linux and writing some 'doze-compatible eye candy.
Imagine! Microsoft Linux! Only $39.95!
Yah, right. ;-)
Cheers! Rich
Very old joke.
Along those lines i think they are trying to shock home users into segregating user and admin accounts.
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But then he couldn't control the support contracts.
This may get lost in the translation, but I have a friend who has always worked in DOD stuff as a support contractor. His job was to provide technical advice to the Navy, mainly on comms gear. One of the things he found was that they could *never* get a system "approved" for use with the comms satelites. Instead the certifying authority would only issues "waviers" so that you could use the gear, but not have official sanction. That kept them from ever being held accountable for any problems with the system.
So I was trying to install some software on his new Vista machine and it kept popping up the stupid dialogs asking you to say it was ok to go ahead. He said that Vista had moved to a system of "waivers".
UAC is about M$ trying to shift the blame for their legacy of a crappy security model.
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