Richard Menedetter wrote:
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> CV> As with most virii, the cure requires some modification of the
> CV> virus's ability to replicate successfully.
> JavaScript doesn't have such a capability ...
> I have never seen that my browser modifies local HTML files to include
> JavaScript, when I loaded a site which uses JavaScript ...
>
> So it doesn't fit the definition of a virus.
It is not required that your (or anyone else's) BROWSER modifies files to
create new javascript. The replicator is further up the arm in contact with
your keyboard.
You receive javascript.
YOU decide that javascript is the proper message for the medium.
YOU create new javascript.
> CV> Sometimes, a competing virus is required to do the job in the end.
> ??
> 2 virii can usually coexist in one individuum.
Yes, and "sometimes" the second virus can modify/reverse the effects of the
first, thereby rendering its replicating ability null.
> CV> The competing meme isn't Linux. :(
> says who :))))
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