Re: [SLE] (OT): M$ response to I LOVE YOU

Well i'm wondering if this will happen on a win2k machine, if you set the user up as a restricted used he/she can not make changes to the system, for they do not have the permission to do so. I know from past exsperience that if you set up a restricted user you need to make sure that you run all programs from microsoft at least as the administrator before the restricted user can run them. I learned this one the hard way hehe. just a comment off topic but had too throw it out. At 12:12 PM 5/5/00 -0500, Argentium G. Tiger wrote:

At 11:34 05/05/2000 -0400, Paul Greene wrote:

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It's my understanding that the reason these virii/worms seem to proliferate through Microsoft programs is due to an inherent security problem with the design itself of Microsoft systems. Microsoft applications are too intimately tied in with the operating system, so application programs can screw up the operating system.

< Insert image of a hammer hitting a nail squarely on its head. > :-)

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These virus outbreaks are getting to be a major pain in the butt;

Yes, and the ILOVEYOU worm now has at least 5 different varients out there.

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...maybe the potential side benefit of these outbreaks will be that Microsoft will be forced to tighten things up in their own technical design?

I wouldn't hold my breath.

Microsoft's official claim that Outlook isn't at fault may be technically correct, but their statement is a truly laughable attempt to get people to focus on outlook rather than the fault of the underlying windows code that allows visual basic scripts to wreak havoc if written to do so.

As a related point: I find the whole idea of applications overwriting shared libraries as part of their install process offensive. I'd even go so far as to say such a practice might even be classifiable as the product of an insane mind.

Now there's a satisfying image: Windows: Product of mass psychosis.

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