From: "Geo." 


"Rich"  wrote in message news:406f018a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>   So you believe the knowledgable users are ones that could follow
instructions on not just how to open a password protected ZIP file but can
go further and rise to the level of following instructions on changing an
Outlook Express option, something you believe that people who can only open
a password protected ZIP file could not do.<<

Yes but understand the reasoning, the instructions for opening the zip file
are in the infected email right in the users face, the instructions for
changing the OE option require the user to actually think, maybe poke
around a little or god forbid click on "help"..

>>   It's not that very few people do send signed email, it is that very few
can.  A trojan whose spread is limited to those people that can sign email,
keep their private key somewhere that doesn't require a password or PIN,
and don't pay attention to actual security issues.<<

First I was going under the assumption that "read as text" would
be on by default in XPsp2. If it's not then this whole discussion is really
moot because the number of users using read as text is so small it's not a
problem. However my thought was that if it were on by default then usage of
signed email would increase because of all the idiots who see HTML as
necessary to get the stupid fonts and colors in their emails.

Geo.

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