Adding on to what Sam said below: To operate most any form of technology requires the operator to understand some of the fundamental warning signs the manufacturers have provided.
So the folks who get burned by a virus are the same sorta folks who keep on driving when the warning lights on their car's dash panel turn red. Which keep a lot of technicians employed fixing those sorts of stupid oversights. Anyone who is attaching themselves to the Internet and the World Wide Web - no matter the speed of the connection on the type of platform - should be using an up-to-date virus scanning software for BOTH their inbound and outbound traffic. IMO if your using the Internet then you should be behind at least a software firewall, too. I have my own preferences for virus checking and software firewall. But that can lead to another of those threads like the ones about the various versions of DOS. I think Sam would go along with the statement that if you got a virus you probably weren't paying attention to what are the basic operator lessons of Internet operation. John Oram "Samuel W. Heywood" wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Mar 2002 10:30:00 -0500 Michel Samson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > .... In 1981, with some effort, might we have got InterNet access on XTs? > > In 1981 the internet as we know it had not yet come into existence. > I don't think XTs came into existence until around cerca 1984. You > can get internet access with XTs right now with hardly any effort > at all by setting up any of several various freeware and shareware > DOS applications in accordance with the simple README instructions. > You can be up and running in less than five minutes. An old 2400 bps > modem will work just fine. You will of course find such a system > most extraordinarily slow by today's modern standards, but it will > work. I know it will work. I go there and do that every once in a > while. > > Of course it would be possible for someone to send to you a DOS LEGACY > virus, but unlike a typical Windows user you wouldn't be so stupid as > to run any program sent to you in an email without first scanning it > for viruses. For this reason I think that DOS LEGACY viruses are going > extinct, but Windows viruses will continue to proliferate until people > start to wise up and begin using a safe alternative operating system > while accessing the internet. > > One of the main problems with most Windows email clients is that they > allow the operator to inadvertently and unintentionally open an > attachment and run it. It is impossible to run an attachment received > in a DOS email client without deliberately going through a multi-step > process in which you are perfectly aware of what you are doing. > Furthermore, it is impossible for your pure DOS machine to get infected > with a Windows virus. Even if you deliberately try to run the program > you will just get an error message saying "This program cannot run in > DOS mode". > > Sam Heywood > -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ > > To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. > Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. > More info can be found at; > http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
