Re: [OT] Gates has spyware on his home machines

2004-11-13 Thread Nate Bargmann
The only virus I ever had the pleasure of cleaning up after was the Stoned virus back in 1991. It had this propensity for putting itself into the book record of every floppy and, as I recall, it couldn't infect my hard drive. It was a bugger to get rid of and one of the locals came up with an ant

Re: [OT] Gates has spyware on his home machines

2004-11-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alex Malinovich wrote: On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 14:11 -0500, William Ballard wrote: --snip-- The two only time I ever got a virus were (1) a floppy at the university in 1993 and (2) Code Red when my machine was on CorpNet at Microsoft. Come to think of it, the only time I've ever had a virus or spywa

Re: [OT] Gates has spyware on his home machines

2004-11-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 14:11 -0500, William Ballard wrote: --snip-- > The two only time I ever got a virus were (1) a floppy at the university > in 1993 and (2) Code Red when my machine was on CorpNet at Microsoft. Come to think of it, the only time I've ever had a virus or spyware on my computer w

[OT] Gates has spyware on his home machines

2004-11-13 Thread William Ballard
[quote] It's also a problem that has affected Gates personally. He said his home PCs have had malware, although he has personally never been affected by a virus. "I have had malware, [adware], that crap" on some home machines, he said. [/quote] http://software.silicon.com/malware/0,383100,