[ale] FW: [ISN] Microsoft Outlook patch delayed again

Christopher S. Adams toiletduk at penguinpowered.com
Wed Jun 7 17:47:38 EDT 2000


it DOES give a warning, and if that's not enough, then maybe the people that
ran the .vbs script need to ignore the warnings on their medicines

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Hardie" <pete.hardie at dvsg.sciatl.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, 07 June, 2000 17:03
Subject: Re: [ale] FW: [ISN] Microsoft Outlook patch delayed again


> "Christopher S. Adams" wrote:
> >
> > it's not outlook that's at fault anyway
> > i say the people who actually ran the vbs script, their companies
deserved
> > it for hiring people of limited mental capacity
>
> I say that it *is* Outlook at fault, for *RUNNING UNTRUSTED EXECUTABLES*
from
> the mail area.  I mean, Java pointed out the need for a sandbox over 3
years
> ago, and Outlook still allowed *FULL ACCESS TO ALL PARTS OF THE MACHINE*
>
> Sure, the people who clicked on the .vbs are slow, but M$ makes much hay
out of
> being the 'innovator', so why didn't Outlook have this safety feature?
>
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