RG> The point I was trying to make is that cookies are NOT
RG> executable files

JB> a point well made.

   And the point *I* was trying to make was that cookies come
unsolicited, are stored god-knows-where, and could easily have an EXE
lurking in amongst the dross, just waiting to infect.

RG> As I keep saying, viruses don't 'just happen' - it takes user
RG> input of one sort or another in order for them to spread.

JB> In general yeah, Microsoft juste relased another patch in
JB> attempt to make that true,

 Unfortunately, it goes against the Microsoft philosophy of making a
computer easy to use. It's *supposed* to be a no-brainer... and Gates
is right! Using a computer *ought* to be a no-brainer, so while M$ is
making everything easy and automatic, Rod complains that we ought to
know what's happening and take care.

 Bill Gates is $500Bn right.

 Unfortunately, he's stuck with a suck-arse system that only gets
worse every time he tries to improve it. I don't know why he just
doesn't give up and hang Windows on the end of Linux, the way he
originally hung it on the end of DOS.

JB> It seems there was some way to get OE to run stuff wiothout
JB> asking and there was no way to block it.

 That's what I was talking about originally, an inbuilt backdoor to
WinXP... and I wonder how many others there are, either accidental or
intentional. I simply don't trust M$ and the Americans.

 My version of Linux is SuSE, btw. 

Regards,
Bob


 

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