I think you're right sammy - the only problem is
tracing, however - you'd need the cooperation of all
the worlds ISPs and sites (like yahoo) which would
already breach many privacy contracts...
I think you're thinking of some sort of internet
utopia :)
- W0rm
--- "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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