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people dont know any better but whats the common denominator about most newsworthy virus attacks in last few years - Outlook Express!
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I hate to defend Microsoft, since they are indeed very sucky.
But I don't think that you can actually blame them for this.
The reason that it's the most targetted program by viruses, is because it's the most widely used program. If you were writing a virus, would you write it for a mail program used by 10 people, or a mail system used by 10 million people?
If another mail program was most widely used, then that would have been the one targetted, not Outlook.
And you can't even really say that they should have made it more resistant to viruses, since the people who code the viruses, would find some way around that.
Steve