By Graeme Wearden
Published: Tuesday 27 January 2004
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Name
James Tweedie
Location
Scotland
Occupation
Software developer
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Agree with Don here. I cannot understand why 14,000 people deliberately extracted a .zip file from an email address "fuckensuicide@hotmail.com" and a subject line that is obviously a spam-line or similar.
Or does Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express automatically and helpfully open the email attachments?
We have a company ban on Outlook for emails - we use Pegasus which does NOT open attachments or run any html or other code.
Maybe there should be a computer license (like car license) so that people cannot own a computer until they've passed the test!
While there are fools we'll have viruses.
Don Tregartha
Agree with Don here. I cannot understand why 14,00...
James Tweedie
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