I have the same problem....Both with JAVA and the newsgroups.
Chad Warren
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Subject: Re: [newbie] virus
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 07:46:07AM +0000, Andre Baron wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 08:45:01PM -0500, Lloyd wrote:
> > > I just found an attached file in this mailing list (I've seen this file
> > > in newsgroups, too)
> > > called Happy99.exe. I'm pretty sure this is either a trojan horse or a
> > > virus.
> > >
> > > Open it at your own risk.....
> > >
> > > If you just delete the message without opening it, you won't have any
> > > damage.
> >
> > And if you read it with a real operating system, you can laugh maniacally at
> > the thought of all the Windows users who have just hosed their machine.
> >
> > Come on, doesn't anyone use Linux to read this mailing list?!
>
> Sorry Steve, I used a Mac to retrieve that one.... It had no problems, just
> chewed up the virus and spit it back out... ;) That's only at work, I'm proud
> to say that I have no Microsoft products on this machine.... hehe..
Hmmm... only because I have some strange attraction to Macs will I consider
that even remotely close! :) I want one of those G3 servers so bad I can
taste it.
> And this WAS written from Netscape un Mandrake. I don't everyone who says
> netscape for linux crashes, the only time this has crashed on me is when I've
> run outta memory...
I can't say that I've never had it crash, but in the instances that it did
crash, it was always Java/Javascript that caused it. Once I turned both of
those off, it's been rock-solid.
Speaking of which, does anyone else have problems with 4.08 double-loading
news articles occasionally? It's not so bad on text articles (since the
reload time is relatively quick), but when I'm tryin' to look at the nekkid
chickies it's a little annoying! :)
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Steve Philp
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