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> Educating users to stop running random programs in zip files attached to emails, is apparently impossible.

Imagine something just like the malware we're discussing, but instead of a 72 hour timer, it's a 4 hour timer - and at the end, it pops up a "gotcha! just kidding. but if this were real malware, you would have either lost hundreds of dollars, or all your documents. Don't open attachments like me."



That wouldn’t work. People subjected to this would:

1. Immediately kill the messenger, and

2. Continue to open executable mail attachments, because nothing bad has ever happened that didn’t work itself out in the end.




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