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no more EMS support in XP (Announce)

posted by nidud E-mail, Norway, 17.10.2012, 14:25

> Did you heard about trojan horse software? Nobody doesn't need to break
> someone's house. He just spread his malware by email and stupid users will
> run it themselves (most of them are logged as admin already). Of course the

It seems the aim for these programs is to hawk out emails selling penis enlargements and the likes. It takes some effort to make these programs, so one may wonder why they not use their skills for some more constructive things.

I thing there is to much paranoia around these days, and the people who is assign the job to protect us from imaginary problems is gaining to much strength. Their income seems to be based on coming up with new ideas on how you could be victimised by wicked peoples craft, and you don?t need to be very crafty to see what that leads to.

> same could be done with regular win32 program :)

And then distributed through Windows update system. ;-)

 

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