In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marcel Kilgus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Malcolm Cadman wrote: >>>Why does everybody get viruses except me? This is really unfair! >> Now ... now :-) ... be careful ... there are some clever originators >> around, yet, fortuneately the common ones are relatively trivial. > >Usually the infection has to be done manually by the user. At least >with my mailer (The bat!) there is no other way to execute code. So no >danger there.
Agreed, yet it doesn't mean that will always be the case. >> Don't wish a disaster on your self. > >I have disassembled and analyzed several viruses and also wrote >specific anti virus software in my past, I think I could handle it ;-) I don't doubt your skills, and I hope you remain virus free :-) >But I also think it's better to stop the discussion at this point, >it's way off topic. On topic, as those hit by a virus can be infected via the newsgroup, and are taken off the newsgroup for a while. Or may even put some off contributing again :-( -- Malcolm Cadman
