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new photos from my party

by anders pearson Mon 28 Jan 2002 11:59:55

our office has been overrun with the <a href="http://www.silicon.com/bin/bladerunner?30REQEVENT=&REQAUTH=21046&14001REQSUB=REQINT1=50786">MyParty</a> email worm. as i sit at my linux box looking at all the ascii garbage that is harmless in kmail but Outlook inexplicably treats as executable code, i'm left with the same questions that i ask every time one of these stupid things comes out: 1) why do people still use Outlook? 2) why do people on windows/mac not at least use anti-virus software that is updated daily? 3) why doesn't microsoft fix Outlook already? after watching this happen over and over again (and getting countless Word documents that should have been plain-text emails), my boss and i are both strong advocates of banning Outlook in the office. we don't think we can do it though because too many people are attached to the stupid thing.