Re: Microsquish idiots

Charles wrote:
> "Windows has blocked access to these files to help protect your
> computer"
>
> Thanks.  Thanks alot.  Then a cutesy window that tells you how to work
> around the issue - only the workaround doesn't work.  What maroons.
> What cads.

Don't ever trust the workaround strategy of the goobers who devised a
method to prevent you from getting from here to there in the first
place.

The workaround is a trick**** -- they didn't want you to have access
(and they still don't).  Get it?

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin

"Mike Easter" <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote in message 
news:fo84gg$4c8$1@news.spamcop.net...
> Charles wrote:
>> "Windows has blocked access to these files to help protect your
>> computer"
>>
>> Thanks.  Thanks alot.  Then a cutesy window that tells you how to work
>> around the issue - only the workaround doesn't work.  What maroons.
>> What cads.
>
> Don't ever trust the workaround strategy of the goobers who devised a
> method to prevent you from getting from here to there in the first
> place.
>
> The workaround is a trick**** -- they didn't want you to have access
> (and they still don't).  Get it?
>
> -- 
> Mike Easter
> kibitzer, not SC admin
>

If the subject is older word files inaccessible by the latest Office Vista 
(is it called that?) I thought I had seen an article that that misfeature 
had been disabled in the most recent patch kit. Perhaps in El Reg.

I don't run into it using office 2003 myself. 

"Windows has blocked access to these files to help protect your
computer"

Thanks.  Thanks alot.  Then a cutesy window that tells you how to work 
around the issue - only the workaround doesn't work.  What maroons.  What 

Mike Easter wrote:
> Charles wrote:
>> "Windows has blocked access to these files to help protect your
>> computer"
>>
>> Thanks.  Thanks alot.  Then a cutesy window that tells you how to work
>> around the issue - only the workaround doesn't work.  What maroons.
>> What cads.
> 
> Don't ever trust the workaround strategy of the goobers who devised a
> method to prevent you from getting from here to there in the first
> place.
> 
> The workaround is a trick**** -- they didn't want you to have access
> (and they still don't).  Get it?

Hrm.  Mike got me wondering...  I wonder if Charles got a legit Windows 
prompt, or was prompted by malware to open something up so that the 
malware could be more viral.

No way it was me! It was "Mike Easter" <MikeE@ster.invalid>!

> The workaround is a trick**** -- they didn't want you to have access
> (and they still don't).  Get it?

OK, well, I solved the problem myself.  But thanks for being so 
understanding.  I actually mean that - you're obviously not enamored with 
the goobers either.

Anyway, I just changed my program so that I'm always zipping in the current