Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Tuesday 2007-08-07 at 17:38 +0200, jdd wrote:
in approx 25 years of computing, I _never_ had data corrupted by a virus, even
on windows.
Me neither.
Of course, I have been using Linux for close to the last then years, but
even before that I caught viruses before they did unrepairable damage.
This don't mean I never got virus, but I always see it before any damage done.
I have seen many computer destructed by visuses, of course, even very
recently.
I even had to clean executables using debug - before antiviruses were
handy... Or write my own antivirus software.
In the over thirty years I've been using computers, I've only once
experienced a virus on my own computer. It was at work and I
accidentlally left an infected floppy in my drive when I booted the
computer. The IBMAV program I was using quickly found and removed it.
Other than that one instance, I've never seen an infected OS/2 system,
even though I used to do OS/2 and AV software support at IBM Canada. I
haven't had any problems with a Linux system. On the other hand, I've
seen many Windows computers so badly infected that the only recourse was
to wipe the disk clean and reinstall. At one company that I supported,
re-imaging was a common practice.
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