And someone has one... Re: Virus Alert !!!

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Wed Mar 7 20:19:24 2001

It's not Microsoft ... nor is it any other software house ... it's the dummies
who prefer the glitz and glamour, taking appearance over substance every time.
If it weren't for them, Detroit would have been a wasteland decades ago.
They're what the US economy survives on.

Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
To: "Classic Computers" <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: And someone has one... Re: Virus Alert !!!


> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, ajp166 wrote:
> > Dont need no speghetti code to fix it. Just remove the dumb user.
> > Seriously, there are a bunch of things that users should to to elimintate
> > most
> > of the insanity.
> > -Disable VBS scripting, that stops a raft of buggies right there.
> > - disable open after preview for 5sec .
> > - disable auto display of pictures
> > - enable empty deleted folder on close (delete really does then).
> > Thats just a few of the simpler things that really do help.
> - and default to TEXT for e-mail
>
> If those were the DEFAULTS, what percentage of the problems would be
> solved, and how much of the anti-MICROS~1 hostility would be eliminated?
>
>
Received on Wed Mar 07 2001 - 20:19:24 GMT