ahhh. i suspected as much. microsoft needs to fix that badly!!!! the rest of the OSes work like that afaik, if a virus were emailed to me (Mac OS X) i would have to first click on it, hit the install button, type in my password and blah blah blah, stuff i would never do unless i was intentionally installing something.
very interesting. thanks for the info.
`Km
"I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check," Steve Jobs said. "If so, then Microsoft would have great products." ~May 2007 stockholder's meeting
On May 3, 2011, at 10:24 AM, Judith Barnett wrote:
Nope, a virus/trojan can come from a link, an attachment, an exe file
etc. It is not necessarily something you install like a program.
On 5/3/2011 10:18 AM, Just Murray wrote:
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> but. in order to install a virus/trojan/worm wouldn't you first type in
> your admin password for something to install you didnt request? isnt
> that a big red flag and easy to not do??!!??
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