All in all, its just another bug in Windows

Yes, that was a Pink Floyd reference in the title. In case you didn't get the reference, the original words were "All in all, its just another brick in the wall". There's some irony in the implied juxtaposition of bricks in walls and bugs in windows. Another brick in the wall helps build the wall and walls are for keeping things inside inside and things outside, outside (as the Roman emporer Hadrian knew all too well). However a bug in windows just makes it less safe and as well all know windows are pretty transparent at the best of times so its a bad name for a product that makes an claims to be safe. Maybe someone should be selling Window Bars for Windows?

Oh, in case you don't know what I'm prattling about, its the latest bug in Windows. It just goes to show that you can't even trust the file types that Windows marks as "safe", especially ActiveX which has long been derided as a vast sinkhole waiting to open up and swallow your entire hard-drive. Now with the lid blow off ActiveX do you really trust the Windows setting of "allow only safe scripting"? As all you grown ups know even safe sex has its little dangers, so why should we trust "safe scripts"?

What next, JPG files considered harmful? Of course there's some patent infringement aspects to worry about with .jpg, lets hope that PNG files will remain safe otherwise we'll be stuck with plain old TXT.

For my part, I only completely trust information delivered to me in thin-tree format (that's paper to you youngsters). Its better to be safe than sorry.