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[Joe Zeff]

On 12/15/2011 06:52 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 15:11 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On 12/15/2011 02:53 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>> Which email virus are you thinking of? I don't know any that would work
>>> on both Windows and Linux, but no doubt someone has tried.
>>
>> I'm not thinking of any of them.  I was using email viruses as an
>> example of something we used to think was impossible.
>
> Was there such a time?
>

Back before the first outbreak, most techs were busy telling people that 
all the rumors of people's computers being infected just by opening an 
email were just that; it couldn't happen.  Then we learned better.

> Note that this was before MS created Outlook, IOW those of us who place
> the bulk of the virus problem at MS' door are not just being paranoid.
> MS had to have known this was possible, they just didn't care.
>

Back then, I referred to Outlook as "a mass of bugs held together by 
security holes."