Jun 27, 2002

Upside to email worms

Posted in Geek at 7:44 pm by David Bradley -- Click to comment

Although we’re somewhat loathe to admit it, there does seem to be the occasional benefit to a Worm - one of those pain in the arse self-replicating email things that steal Outlook address books and such. A friend of ours, Jenny Lancashire (name and gender changed for legal reasons), recently discovered her computer was infected with a worm but only when she started getting complaining messages from ex-friends and ex-colleagues and ex-family members - people in her address book, in fact. But, there was one message from a long-lost friend who hadn’t been in touch for at least an age and it gave them the cahnce to get back together. Everyone say, “Aaaaah”. Who needs “reunitedfriends.com” when all you need’s a worm? But, that aside the proliferation of these annoying little memes relies on users persisting with Outlook. Why, oh why, oh why, don’t y’all ditch Outlook in favour of a non-susceptible email client?

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