On Tue, 17 May 2005, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > >> Kill two birds with one stone... I like it. > > > > Nice. That couldn't be cleaner. There are plenty of ways of > > harmlessly disabling a system (no lost data, just no boot) and that > > would certainly be an awakening call for everyone across the board. > > People would get to reinstall their os and loose at least 2hrs of > > time. I really miss the days of destructive viruses. We just don't > > really see 'em like we used to. Remember Michaelangelo? What was his > > birthday again? > > > > /me stops reminiscing of the good ol' days. > > Actually I don't know if users would be effected by an hour or two > charge of reinstalling the OS. Lose their favorite bookmarks or the > report they were working on, they might remember that. But just > hitting "next" a couple times...then again, re-entering a 50 digit key > and reactivating XP is a pain in the butt. :-)
Especially if XP decides that you need to call MS! -- Eric Wheeler Vice President National Security Concepts, Inc. PO Box 3567 Tualatin, OR 97062 http://www.nsci.us/ Voice: (503) 293-7656 Fax: (503) 885-0770 _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
