Re: Viruses

2002-07-18 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Unless we are all running linux and mozilla and don't worry about such things ;-)(oh if only that could be) John wrote: > All, > > I am subscribed to both the Perl- and CGI-Beginners lists and get a ton of > your very informative questions and (what's best ) answers every day. >

re: Viruses

2002-07-18 Thread John
All, I am subscribed to both the Perl- and CGI-Beginners lists and get a ton of your very informative questions and (what's best ) answers every day. I run Norton's anti-virus which I keep up-to-date with the latest virus signatures. I can't remember having *ever* received a virus warning when

Re: Viruses

2002-07-18 Thread drieux
On Thursday, July 18, 2002, at 07:53 , Shawn wrote: > [..] I use Win2K, OS X, and *nix, but to say "Maybe you should get rid > of MS Windows" a not even an option for most businesses. Be prepared > when *nix gets to a point of the average Joe being able to use it for the

Re: Viruses

2002-07-18 Thread Michael Maibaum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Bob Showalter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-07-18 08:13]: > > -Original Message- > > From: Nikola Janceski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Viruses work only because of homogeny. The more systems with > &g

RE: Viruses

2002-07-18 Thread Bob Showalter
> -Original Message- > From: Nikola Janceski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 11:07 AM > To: 'Shawn'; Camilo Gonzalez; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Viruses > > > Viruses work only because of homogeny. The more systems with

RE: Viruses

2002-07-18 Thread Nikola Janceski
Viruses work only because of homogeny. The more systems with more diversity and the harder it is for viruses to make any kind of impact. Every system has security holes, but if everyone had the same system you can exploit that hole (MS virus frenzy). But what happens when you hit another system

Re: Viruses

2002-07-18 Thread Shawn
You get my point. The business world uses MS, live with it. I use Win2K, OS X, and *nix, but to say "Maybe you should get rid of MS Windows" a not even an option for most businesses. Be prepared when *nix gets to a point of the average Joe being able to use it for the viruse

RE: Viruses

2002-07-18 Thread Camilo Gonzalez
Antibiotics won't work against viruses. Like the anti-windows message though. -Original Message- From: Shawn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 9:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Viruses "zentara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in mes

Re: Viruses

2002-07-18 Thread Shawn
ugh this mailing list. In the past 2 weeks I have received > >notification from my Microtrend PC-cillin of no less than 6 worm/trojan > >infected files sent through this group. If others on this list do not have > >adequate virus protection please beware of possible viruses cir

Re: Viruses

2002-07-18 Thread zentara
fected files sent through this group. If others on this list do not have >adequate virus protection please beware of possible viruses circulating >through this email list. I havn't received any viruii thru this list, exactly which messages are you talking about. Maybe you should get rid o

Viruses

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