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On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 03:46:48PM -0700, JC Dill wrote: > > At 02:07 PM 8/20/2003, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: > > >There's quite a lot of usable stuff out there. Many Win32 users have > >switched to Mozilla which seems to solve 100% of the Outlook-specific > >attacks which account for... hmmm... 100% of the malicious email > >messages of the last 6 months. > > Unfortunately, that's not true. My father has to use Windoze because > several software programs for his industry (Real Estate, specifically > managing rentals) only come in Windoze flavors. He stays away from M$ > client software whenever possible and was using Mozilla for email (until > yesterday, I'm getting him started on Eudora). His email software doesn't > automatically open attachments for him. For some (but not all folks), you can run such software on a Windows virtual machine (I use Win4Lin) under a Unix or Linux OS. That might be an attractive and not very expensive solution for the above. > > jc -- -=[L]=-
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