Mark South wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:01:13 +0000, [ste parker] wrote:
>
>> Not using IE isn't the hardest thing in the world to do, neither is
>> setting an email client to not auto-preview. I've yet to see an email
>> I've received in Thunderbird automatically try to run anything on my
>> Windows system just by opening the email anyway (if you've information
>> that proves otherwise I'd be happy to read it though!), and so it comes
>> back to manually running an executable. Game over can admittedly easily
>> be reached, but it can also easily be avoided.
>
> Hmm. It's good news that Microsoft disables IE and OE by default, and
> sets up Firefox and Thunderbird instead.
>
Yes, but what does that have to do with anything I wrote? Windows is
insecure and especially so by default, I've no argument with that. The
point is, many of the problems with Windows, such as issues with the
defaults you list, can be easily avoided (not least by changing entirely
to use Ubuntu, of course), and getting something such as the Storm worm
isn't necessarily as easy as just switching your PC on and going online.
> Yeah. OK. We've now got zero Ubuntu content in this thread, and it's
> time it came to a close.
>
It's got at least two mentions now
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[ste]