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Ryan Lowe has reached the end of his rope on the (lack of) security in MS products. To be fair, newer revs of Outlook (etc) have most or all of the dangerous features off, and most people will never turn them back on. The main problem is the legacy of win98, winME - and even win95! - clients out there with dated software. Too many of these people are out there, running on DSL or cable modems, always on, and apparently always infected. I cut MS no slack on this stuff. It wasn't necessarily clear that these services were a problem when 95 shipped; but it should have been by the time 98 went out, and clearly was by the time ME shipped. And yet here we are, still in hackers paradise. Backwards compatibility is a big deal, I know - we try very hard to achieve as much of it as we can in Cincom Smalltalk releases - but for some issues, there are overriding concerns.
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