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> The funny thing is before Microsoft did this everyone was b'ching about > the fact that it let you open executable attachments without so much as a > warning. In other words, they went from "you can point the gun at your foot and pull the trigger to see if it's loaded" to "you can't pick up the gun at all". They did the same thing with macros in Word. We had been using a patch that loaded the macros but disabled auto-execute, so you could look to see what you had, but they broke it at the same time they released their "macro virus protection": which lets you either open the document with all macros working or open the document with the macros all hidden... to the point where you couldn't even look at them. > Though at the time I don't remember any other email clients that > did that either! :P Most other email clients didn't open attachments using whatever random desktop binding Microsoft had set up.There's stuff above here
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