I abide by the phrase of
"Prevention is better than Cure"
There is nothing wrong in being on the safer side. Atleast by altering the
system date I can save myself from the time bound(Date controlled) attacks of
viruses. You are saying this only because you were not the one who lost 4 GB of
precious data and the Disk itself unaware of what actually was going on!
Suraj kumar
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From: "Babu Kalakrishnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: [LIH] modem speed
>
> On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 (!!!!) at 09:50:32PM -0700, Suraj Kumar typed:
> >
> > "I have Altered my system date to an older date because I have an internal
> > Creative modem (read Costly) which I have not been able to configure or make
it
> > work under Linux because it simply does not respond to the Modem Query at
port
> > /dev/ttyS3 (COM 4) hence I am forced to use $doze for Internet Surfing and
mail
> > management and I have already suffered a loss of Rs.5000/- way back in
1998(26
> > April,1998 to be precise) when my PC was hit by Win.CIH Virus and my 4.3 GB
HDD
> > had to be thrown out in the Garbage(including the data if it was still there
on
> > it). So I now give myself a "room" of about 2-years by changing my system
date."
>
> Now this is probably the most ridiculous reason I've ever seen for
> setting one's system date wrong !!
>
> If you're scared of viruses, get yourself a good virus checker and
> ensure that your system is virus-free. And make sure you don't
> introduce new viruses by executing untrusted programs on your machine.
>
> Do you think the millions of Windows users out there who work with the
> correct dates set on their machines are more prone to virus attacks than
> you are ??
>
> Kala
>
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