May 7, 2000

The Paperless One LOVES YOU!

May 7, 2000

Seriously, people - who would open an e-mail message with such a screwy tagline:

Kindly read the enclosed attachment!

Whatever. Only in the business world, I tell you. Huge systems sit openly on LAN's with no form of virus protection, and the most unsafe contributor of all: idiotic employees who are willing to open such tempting messages.

If it weren't for the business sector, things like the "I LOVE YOU" virus wouldn't spread around nearly as fast. Sure enough, they would trickle through a few e-mail boxes like the famous messages about FREE CLOTHES FROM THE GAP, FREE VACATIONS TO DISNEY WORLD, and other similar classics, but they wouldn't have the punch that the business sector allows them to carry.

For you see, it is the business sector that sits computer illiterates down in front of computers, as they are required to do virtually any job in this day and age, and require even the largest neophobes of the crowd to perch before the cathode ray tubes for at least a few minutes a day.

The idea of a virus infiltrating one's e-mail program through the use of attachments should be enough to get most people to stop opening attachments in their e-mail, or at least get the computer to prompt you before opening one, however, with the number of people who merely click things until something works (or fucks up further) don't even realize that this is an issue. However, they will be the first to let you know that there are kids' tattoos floating around that are laced with LSD.

Fuck off.