> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]
> Sent: 18 November 2003 00:51
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: Justin Clift; pgsql-www@postgresql.org; Marc G. Fournier
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Page contents
>
> Dave Page wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]
> > > Sent: 17 November 2003 00:34
> > > To: Dave Page
> > > Cc: Justin Clift; pgsql-www@postgresql.org; Marc G. Fournier
> > > Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Page contents
> > >
> > > Should opening an email every give you a virus? I don't think so.
> > >
> >
> > No, but my point is without proper protection/procedures a
> user of any
> > OS/MUA can open and execute a trojan.
>
> Right, but I think my MUA and helper applications are
> designed to be safe so I can't botch it up.
As have been the last few versions of Outlook (proper, dunno about
Express). To get round that protection you have to do some non-trivial
registry hacking and even then you still get warnings when you try to
open things.
Whilst there are undoubtedly vulnerabilities in Outlook, as most other
apps, I think it's unfair to blame a product just because it has a
better class of idiot in it's userbase - especially when it's their
actions that cause 99.9% of the problems.
Anyhoo, this is waaaaay off-topic for here. I'm not overly interested,
but if anyone feels compelled to keep discussing this, feel free to
email me off-list :-)
Regards, Dave.