DEVX wrote this
"But where was Microsoft in all this? According to ZDNet News, Microsoft
was never planning a response to the ILOVEYOU worm."
Ah, so now it's Microsoft's responsibility every time something like this
happens? Good Lord! Are you SERIOUS? Is it your fault that your purple
color on your site makes my eyes hurt? Should you pay for my eye doctor
appointment?
The person who wrote this article was obviously stupid enough to open the
attachment and doesn't understand a THING about development.
Ashamed of you people.
Bubba
05-11-2000, 04:21 AM
"Dan" <danhsd@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>DEVX wrote this
>
>"But where was Microsoft in all this? According to ZDNet News, Microsoft
>was never planning a response to the ILOVEYOU worm."
>
>Ah, so now it's Microsoft's responsibility every time something like this
>happens? Good Lord! Are you SERIOUS? Is it your fault that your purple
>color on your site makes my eyes hurt? Should you pay for my eye doctor
>appointment?
>
>The person who wrote this article was obviously stupid enough to open the
>attachment and doesn't understand a THING about development.
>
>Ashamed of you people.
Hey Chuck,
The reason idiots opened this file, is DUH, hello Ms. Blonde, they DIDNT
KNOW A ****ING THING ABOUT DEVELOPMENT. End users never were expected to
know something about development!@$!@?
Sorry about your car accident,
Bubba
Stefan Grünwedel
05-11-2000, 02:34 PM
"Dan" <danhsd@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>DEVX wrote this
>
>"But where was Microsoft in all this? According to ZDNet News, Microsoft
>was never planning a response to the ILOVEYOU worm."
>
>Ah, so now it's Microsoft's responsibility every time something like this
>happens? Good Lord! Are you SERIOUS?
Yes, I'm serious. And so, apparently, is Microsoft. Go to their home page
and search for "security." You'll see several links to their security-related
sites. This makes sense. Given the dominance that Microsoft wants to establish
in the marketplace and mindspace of PC users around the world, it is their
responsibility to provide users with a trusted presence for help and assistance
on issues of security, not just software troubleshooting or bugs.
That's why I was surprised to read that news report on their decision *not*
to address the ILOVEYOU e-mail. It's their name that appears on the splash
screen every time I boot my computer, and it's their name that appears every
time I launch Outlook. Although *I personally* may know better than to expect
them to explain every malicious e-mail that I may get, the same cannot be
said of the millions of users around the world who rely on their software
to get e-mail.
[As an aside, I mentioned in my op-ed that Microsoft's VBS/Loveletter Virus
page was dated the 8th, kinda late. Well, you can imagine my surprise this
morning when I visited that page (which they now link to from the home page)
and saw "Last Updated: May 5, 2000"! Folks, I'm tellin' ya, it said *May
8th* yesterday when I wrote my op-ed! I find that subtle change *very* interesting...]
To get back to your heated point, I'm not saying that Microsoft must become
experts in virus control or fighting malicious VBScripts. They just need
to reassure people that they're aware of the problem and instruct people
how to adjust their systems, if they wish, so that (in this case) VBScript
won't run so willy-nilly. They say so themselves on their site.
>The person who wrote this article was obviously stupid enough to open the
>attachment and doesn't understand a THING about development.
Sorry, Dan. I may not be the developer that you are, but I didn't open that
e-mail either. Do you think I would have tacitly included myself among those
who *did* run the VBS file in this sentence: "Why did people open the silly
e-mail, let alone run the attached VBScript file? Didn't anyone hear of Melissa
last year?"
>Ashamed of you people.
Sheesh... :)