Just a minor note in response to Andy’s latest diary entry — I get the impression that he is suggesting that a significant amount of the mails he read that contained virus did so through malicious intent.
Whilst I don’t doubt it happens, I would like to respectfully suggest that nowadays, on the whole, viruses spread through users’ inaction, rather than someone targetting a particular person. Yes, of course, those viruses get written and released into the wild, but with adequate client protection, I would think that Andy would not be receiving any more spam and virus-containing mail than anyone else…
The moral from my point, if it is considered valid, is not to lose hope in communicating by mail from the “untrusted” masses…
Posted on Mon, 20 September 2004 at 21:47
