Norman Palardy wrote: > On 16-May-07, at 12:23 PM, Fargo Holiday wrote: > > >>>> Also, at least in Windows, a program that monitors system-wide >>>> keystrokes may be identified as a virus. >>>> >>> A virus programmed in REALBasic...that would be interesting. How >>> ginormous would that be?? Not only non-stealth but totally anti- >>> stealth! :-) >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> >>> >> I dunno. Explorer usually eats up enough memory that people would just >> blame it on that. Or the random failing MS$SQL transactions. >> >> Besides, call it msimportant.exe and 90% of home users won't touch it. >> > > Or throw up and ad saying "Is your computer virus free ? Click here > to get one" > Stunningly this worked for a small percentage of Windows users :) > <http://didierstevens.wordpress.com/2007/05/07/is-your-pc-virus-free- > get-it-infected-here/> > _______________________________________________ > > Oh man. I fix computers for a living, and that sort of reflex... for lack of a better word... is disturbingly common. Most people have been inundated by meaningless windows messages for so long that they don't bother to read any of it. The rest of them are just hopeless in general. =) _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/>
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