Hi Richard:
On Sun, 01 Apr 2001 12:15:20 +0200 (CEST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard
Menedetter) wrote:
> Hi
> 31 Mar 2001, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> The server can NOT look in your harddrive.
> SH> If the server can't look into files on your HDD, then how is it that
> SH> some sites are said to be able to use spyware to track your adventures
> SH> all over the web?
> Urban legend ...
> 'Spyware' could be a trojan horse, which monitors your harddrive, and sends
> stuff to a server on the net ...
> it has nothing to do with your browser
OK, so maybe that explains it. I feel so much more secure in using DOS
when surfing the web. Perhaps one of the greatest advantages of using
DOS vs. Windows is that DOS doesn't multitask. When using DOS only one
program can be running at at any one time. With Windows I don't know what
is going on in the background. When running Windows I frequently see the
little drive-active light flickering on and off at times when this
seemingly *should not* be happening. Whenever my hard drive is being
accessed when using DOS I always know why this is happening and I always
know what program is accessing my hard drive and I know what the program
does and I know what the program doesn't do. They should have designed
Windows so that a little frame or window would appear to inform the user
what program is accessing the hard drive and why. Also it would be a very
nice feature to have Windows to write a log of hard drive accesses. I
frequently wonder why nobody ever thought about building some good features
into Windows.
Sam Heywood
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