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November 27, 2004

Another Inbox Bites the Dust

I've lost another inbox (2nd in as many years) to a worm that plays on the foolishness of those that choose to use Microsoft Outlook and the irresponsible design of that software. I'm trying to recover my data now but I'm not confident I'll get any of my mail back.

I do not use Microsoft Outlook. My email address appears to be in enough people's addressbooks that do that have contracted the worm that I get over 10,000 pieces of 77KB worm email every day. Over the Thanksgiving weekend I have not been checking my email as frequently as I usually do. As a result mail builds up and now despite the best and ultimately futile efforts of the junk mail filtering in Thunderbird, my Inbox is gone.

I have to ask, are there other non-Outlook users out there affected like this? And, more importantly, has anyone considered suing Microsoft for this irresponsible software design that basically amounts to data vandalism and theft?

Posted by ben at November 27, 2004 5:28 PM

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