On Mon, 8 May 2000, vulcan wrote:
> we need to softly expose them to open-source concepts, possibility of a
> world outside window, and they are intelligent enough to understand the
Are you the same vulcan?
> I have been doing extensive browsing, extensive email-ing (sic) on win95
> for last 07 months. and not a single virus, worm, insect, bateria,
> godzilla, alien, whatever ever affected my system.
Well, the last time I got hit by a virus was 1991 when I caught Dark
Avenger. I ran scan and clean on my system. Then I opened COMMAND.COM in
PC TOOLS' hex editor, and when I reached the bottom I saw, "Eddie lives,
somewhere in time... Legalise Marijuana!". That was fun. I have never
installed an antivirus, and I have never been infected since then. I am
building a little zoo though, got about (possibly) four specimens to date.
> lovebug was especially written for OE and VB combination. If you had
> both running on your system, you were doomed. if you don't have either
> OE or VB, you got spared.
Actually, it was written for VBScript. Although based on VB, you don't
need to have VB installed for VBScripts to run. You need any MS Office
component, IE, or OE. Therefore, OE alone can make you susceptible.
> For several other viruses (virii ?), Word and, to some extent, Excel are
It's viruses.
> why are you considering window guys to have descended from krypton.
Please, do not compare windows users to Superman. Superman is cool, is
faster than a speeding bullet, is able to leap over tall buildings in a
single bound, can see through anything other than lead and much more. How
many windows users do you know who compare with him?
Descended from the Potato Planet (Mum and Dad Save the World) is more like
it.
Philip
PS: Are virus writers such `lusers' to resort to macro virus programming?
What is the world coming to with viruses being written in high level
scripting languages? What happened to hand hacking assembly viruses that
had to be under 100 bytes long?
--
Conquest is easy. Control is not.
-- Kirk, "Mirror, Mirror", stardate unknown
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