Re: Off Topic-- Windows only viruses, and a US based school

2002-02-26 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Viruses. cf. http://www.perl.com/language/misc/virus.html Dumb idea. Better idea: don't use vulnerable file formats. Almost all Microsoft document formats can contain executable code. Don't run code from untrusted source, verified by a digital signature. Strip

Re: Off Topic-- Windows only viruses, and a US based school

2002-02-26 Thread GNUOrder
On Tuesday 26 February 2002 02:33, Eugene Leitl wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, GNUOrder wrote: Yea, I dont like seeing these viri getting through to the mailing lists Viruses. either, if that is where you are getting them from. I know a few have made it through the Linux BIOS list in the

Re: Off Topic-- Windows only viruses, and a US based school

2002-02-26 Thread Jake Page
Nah, just fire anyone who accepts such formats for negligence. Nobody nowadays can claim they didn't know the dangers. Oh, GREAT! There goes the marketing department. I'm just amazed Mr. Jawa there has managed to generate this much debate from such an off topic post... (sorry, my bad, too,

Re: Off Topic-- Windows only viruses, and a US based school

2002-02-25 Thread Eugene Leitl
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, GNUOrder wrote: Yea, I dont like seeing these viri getting through to the mailing lists Viruses. either, if that is where you are getting them from. I know a few have made it through the Linux BIOS list in the past. I think the best place to scan for viri is at the

Off Topic-- Windows only viruses, and a US based school

2002-02-24 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine (Cross posted to the lists for the GRUB boot loader, and the Linux BIOS mailing list, and the list for OSkit, a project from a Utah based school.) For the past several weeks, I have been getting zapped by a virus which naturally only attacks Windows based systems. Has