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- Subject: Re: Don't try this at home.
- Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 01:22:01 GMT
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- gator@atcon.com wrote:
-
- >>>>->>given to them and don't know any better.
- >>>>->>
- >>>>->Hey Big Shot, Tell us how much smarter you are than us lowly sheep.
- >>>>
- >>>>>Go away! Go away! End the thread! End the thread!
- >>>>
- >>>>> - Executioner/[Independent]
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- >>>>
- >>>>Yeah sure, a microsoft hater like you doesn't want the truth to come
- >>>>out. What else would you use, OS/2, the dead OS ?
- >>>>
- >>>>Anyways users with Windows 95 are more productive than eg. Mac users,
- >>>>who have to fight the Finder in black/white just to get anything done.
- >>>>
- >>>Thought you guys and Doris's might find this amusing. If you have a
- >>file with
- >>>a virus in it, rename it to start with a ?. Then run the Win '95 anti
- >>viral
- >>>software. Suprise Win '95 can find it.
- >>>Just another example of the shitty bloated code in win '95.
- >>>
- >>Beyond that, Win95 won't even RUN most conventional viruses, as it will
- >>not allow direct disk access. Try it, it's for real. Out of 20 viruses I
- >>tried to run under Win95, only 1 even attempted to run, but ran
- >>incorrectly, and caused a reboot, without major consequence. If that is
- >>bloated code, well, bloat me.
- >>
- >>
-
- >Personally, I've never seen a virus I could "run", trojans maybe, but not viruses.
- >Any virus worth the time it took to write affects something on boot up.
-
- Maybe that's 'cos you don't look hard enough. Viruses can be "run"
- quite easily... And most viruses worth the time they took to write
- aren't done as boot infectors, they are normal file infectors, meaning
- you have to run them to infect yourself or anyone else.
-
- - Executioner/[Independent]
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