On Sat, 28 Jul 2001 10:36:41 -0700 (PDT), "W�rm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I doubt joke.exe is it? It's normally
> something.doc.lnk or something.doc.pif --- but I
> suppose its possible. I've gotten the virus as a 1meg
> attechment...and of course it comes from different
> places, it's an email virus...once you're infected you
> automatically infect others.
> - W0rm
Yeah, JOKE.EXE is another one of those damn dwarves that
are going around. My sister gets them all the time.
They ought to start prosecuting these idiots who keep
spreading those viruses around. Regardless of whether
they are doing it knowingly or unknowingly there is no
excuse for this behavior. People should be held
responsible for their actions, regardless of whether
they are deliberately or unknowingly doing something
wrong. If ignorance is to be accepted as an excuse for
sending out viruses, then ignorance ought to accepted as
an excuse for everything else that people do that is
wrong. If a cop catches me running a red light then he
should pull me over and issue me a citation, even if the
cop believes my excuse that I wasn't paying attention and
I didn't notice the red light. Getting the traffic
ticket will teach me a lesson that I need to pay more
careful attention to my driving. This actually happened
to me once. The cop really did believe my story that I
was paying so much attention to the three pretty girls I
saw standing on the corner that I didn't even notice the
red light indicating I should stop. He understood
perfectly well that I was not deliberately violating the
law. The cop gave me the ticket anyway and he himself
admitted that those girls were good enough to distract
even the most careful observers of red lights. (BTW, that
is not even the rest of the story.)
As for these idiots that are always sending out email
viruses, the authorities should start slapping some fines on
them. That ought to put a stop to it.
Sam Heywood
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