Path: news.net.uni-c.dk!howland.erols.net!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsfeed0.news.atl.earthlink.net!news.atl.earthlink.net!news.mindspring.net!not-for-mail From: "Mike Wahler" Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.database,comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.beta,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: [OT] WARNING! My OE removed the attachment as being unsafe Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 14:00:59 -0800 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <3C8435F2.4ED2879A@attglobal.net> <3c851cb0_2@news.iprimus.com.au> <3c853c75.13087585@news1.rdc1.nsw.optushome.com.au> <3c860e75.66855528@news1.rdc1.nsw.optushome.com.au> <3c866698.89421478@news1.rdc1.nsw.optushome.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 3f.32.60.28 X-Server-Date: 6 Mar 2002 21:45:34 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Xref: news.net.uni-c.dk comp.lang.basic.visual.database:119689 comp.lang.basic.visual.misc:516628 comp.lang.beta:13151 comp.lang.c:585145 Frank Adam wrote in message [snip] > It's pointless blaming the OS, we are talking about OE. I use the OS > because i have to and i am aware of it's flaws. > If there was a reasonable period of time within which there were no > security holes found, we could *deem* both the OS and IE/OE to be > secure. Until then considering them as such, is simply naive. Guess what OE uses to implement its features? Windows functions! It's pointless to claim that the behavior of OE is not controlled by Windows. OE is exactly as secure as is Windows. -Mike