On Saturday I wrote;
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Opinions and advice please Listers,
A group of PC users has kindly( ? ) told me that I would be appalled
if I saw all of the Trojan Horses and Worms working in the
background within my
OS 9.1 system and greedily taking all of my personal info back to
their masters for nefarious purposes.
They could not give specifics of course(!) Or suggest a utility to
directly investigate the truth of this claim.
I would think that in the five years I have been on this list I
would have heard at least one horror story related to this yet
recall none.
So If anyone has had their reputation ruined for devulged info that
they were looking at pictures of weasels mating or had their credit
ruined by a Trojan horse that got them ten thousand subscriptions to
Gerontological Weekly please let me know off list and how you found
out and what you did to get rid of the problem in OS 9.1
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I reported the results of my question to one of those who suggested
the problem,
Here is his response;
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Drop the subject. Just because Akron Public Schools had a massive
case of viral infections running rampant doesn't mean jack. We
must have made it up. Case closed. You guys know everything.
Don't ask either of us for an opinion on it in the future.
Most people can leave their homes unlocked too - but one of these
days, someone's going to walk in.
We lock our doors and plan security because we don't trust the world.
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well actually they brought it up. I didn't ask. But was scoffed at
for using a Mac.
Evidently 21 responses from 2 Mac lists comprising 1200 Mac users
doesn't mean jack either.
And out of the 21 not one mentions an OS 9 virus,Trojan Horse or Worm.
And none report having seen one since about 1990.
And saying that viral infections in the Akron public schools ( kids
or computers?) Does not tell me whether there were PCs in the
forefront of that system or not.
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