Hi Thomas!
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Monday, October 7, 2002, 8:07:51 AM, you wrote: TF> On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 07:37:30 -0500 GMT (07/10/02, 19:37 +0700 GMT), TF> Scott McNay wrote: TF>>> If that were all they do, I'd uninstall my anti-virus programm TF>>> right away. SM>> If that were "all" it did, I still would not want to be SM>> responsible for someone else's machine getting infected by mine. SM>> Sorry to hear that you don't care. I'll set up a filter to refuse SM>> mail from you. TF> Do that. I just said that viruses do more than just send themselves TF> out. I said they delete files, and that's what make them dangerous to TF> the average user. TF> Viruses *delete and alter files*. That is their main threat. Didn't TF> you know that? There *are* a small handful of viruses that simply spread, with minimal other impact. Ironically, this handful isn't prolific, and therefore not well-known. And for the benefit of others, I've been online for about a decade now, near the beginnings of Fidonet ("Fight-O-Net"), and also near the time that viruses, etc., first started appearing. One of the things that I deal with at work is virus stomping, and idiot users who can't be bothered to make sure that their virus protection updated (some are on modems) or who disable the virus protection outright. Among other things, I've disassembled one virus ("butterfly"; this was before the standard naming convention came along), and had to deal with a virus outbreak which the AV software didn't recognize until a week and a half later. -- --Scott. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Using The Bat! 1.61 under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 on an AMD Athlon XP 1900 (1.6G real, 1.9G effective) with 512MB. ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
