I read:
I know that MSWindows is rather like a sieve when considering security - although I suspect much of the viral attacks are directed at MS products specifically for polital or other reasons.
oh come on, think a second time about it, it's _not_ political reasons, that's like saying unices have a steeper learning curve because m$ wants it to be that way ;)
the reason why those weird worm writers choose outlock users as their target audience is primarily that the monoculture of loads of outlucks + lots of cluesless users make their 'product' spread fast as lightning.
consider writing a worm targeting procmail or even worse elm how far do you think that one would get ...
it's like
hi how are you! here are some pictures of my last holydays. you find this little tgz archive attached, could you do a ./configure && make && su -c make install ?
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