People Are Even More Willing To Click On Attachments Today
from the some-people-never-learn dept
These days, you would think that people would have learned to stop clicking on random attachments sent to them over email. However, a new study suggests that 85% of people would automatically open an attachment sent from a friend or colleague -- which is actually slightly higher than a year ago. The main culprit: apparently these people are used to clicking on all the "humorous" forwards from their friends. Amazingly, it turns out that there are a lot of folks out there who seem to enjoy all that friend spam. In other words, outbreaks of "click on this" style virus attacks aren't going away any time soon.
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Reasoning
I say this because I've overheard many of my less than intelligent/ethical coworkers say this
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Worst part was that we don't use outlook and things are setup that he had to go through quite a few hoops to save the attachment then go and execute the thing!!
His response when asked WHY??
"Well its not like I would have done that at home.." which made me want to strangle him.
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