What's My Beef!

Also: people just don't know any better than to delete binary executables they get via e-mail. Some of them run automatically when you open the e-mail, and that means disaster.

Some crooks also send people HTML pages with Java pages so that when the HTML page is opened, Java runs and could cause problems too.

With IE, you have a heck of a time setting up your browser so that it does not run Java when you open an HTML page, does not run micros when you download and open the e-mails, does not run anything or change your registry when you download e-mail.

I prefer the e-mail program to be simplistic in a sense that it does absolutely nothing to e-mail when you open them with the program, and for that, I use Netscape Mail instead of the buggy Outlook.

Macros...who needs them? I say make them disabled by default, as well as disable any applet running or binary executables.

Microsoft..shame on you for putting out such a product that can be expolited to cause viruses and worms to replicate all over the Internet, and costing billions of dollars in handling excess e-mail to our ISP's and web mail websites, as well as causing countless damage on people's computers everywhere due to macro abuse.

It is time for a class action lawsuit against Microsoft to make them accountable for their ignorant actions as well as costing many businesses and people billions of dollars to repair the damage caused by Microsoft macros. Breaking up Microsoft is too good. I say, have the company broken up AND given to the independent software producers and putting Microsoft out of the computer business permanently.

Not only that, it would also be a requirement for Microsoft to make its earlier versions of Windows and DOS available to computers of all sizes. Not all people have the latest computers; some are still running 286 and 386 computers. Software manufacturers can still make software for the earlier versions of DOS/Windows for the smaller computers without all the memory-hogging crap that may very well be better off not included in the software.

As for Internet Explorer...time to permanently put it out to pasture and bring back the simplistic Mosiac browser and e-mail program. That's all you really need to surf the Internet anyway.

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