John Chambers wrote:
>
> Toby wrote:
> | Wendy Galovich wrote:
> | > At 10:18 AM 1/7/2001 -0500, Ian Adkins wrote:
> | > >Somebody here got that dang-ol' Seven Dwarves virus...
> | > Yeah.. I've received it twice so far and McAfee squashed it both times.
> |
> | Huh? Windoze viruses die a painful death on Linux machines :-)
>
> Not really. They just lie there dormant, waiting for someone or
> something to transfer them to a more suitable host. Then they come
> back to life.
Kind of like all those eggs from the first Aliens movie. Sitting,
chilling out on that barren planet, until some hapless human accidently
gets too curious and gets infected by one of them. Involuntarily
surrendering himself as a host for the seductively efficient and
relentless xenomorphic predator? :-)
> Ain't metaphors wonderful?
>
You bet!
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