Philip S Tellis wrote:
>
> Are you the same vulcan?
>
your nice company has brought some improvements (or transformations, or
metamorphosis, or mutations ) in me. :-))
> 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.
>
good idea.
i offer to make a website for you to display them. Could any a/v wizard
give ra/mpeg of simulating their action on display and messages.
why only four. McAfee's database last month already had 50,000 strains.
> 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.
>
I forgot to mention that excel provides vb shell, hence in any system
where excel is installed, vb is very much alive and run-able. All those
are prone to lovebug infections.
to know about lovebug readiness (sic) of your pc, search for vb*.* in
your pc. if you do find at least vbrun200.dll, bugs are coming to love
you.
>
> 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?
>
coming to think of it, i do not find any of these capabilities in
linuxlings also.
by krpton, i only meant to highlight alien nature of windowzers as
linuxlings here consider. people must have been seeing mars-attack and
independence day portraying human-like aliens bent on destruction and
supremacy. Only some of us are SETI people. :-)
> Descended from the Potato Planet (Mum and Dad Save the World) is more like
> it.
>
missed the reference. my amar chitra katha and chandamama fell short of
it. please elaborate. :-)
>
> 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?
>
if you seriously want to know, (i mean you must already be knowing)
first attack of virus thru net came only thru MS-WORD macro. Not thru
browser, but thru email utilities. Most of the documents sent on net are
made on WORD, courtesy winxx. so it was not a matter of alarm for the
recipient to find a .doc attachment, and he used to click on it a force
of habit. Hence it did serve the malicious purpose even without
achieving noble prize for techy supremacy.
what is hand hacking?
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