New Internet Virus Spreading Fast

Porterville Recorder ^ | 1/20/04 | Regan Morris

[martin_fierro]

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[proxy_user]

Or just download you email on your Linux machine...

[general_re]

Or don't run random crap that pops up in your mail...

[zeugma]

The virus only affects machines running Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Nice of them to spell it out. Too bad they don't mention alternatives to the virus-prone pit that is windows.

[Trampled by Lambs]

Doesn't anyone with even a modest ammount of computer experience know by now not to execute random crap that shows up in their mailbox? /boggle

[observer5]

How stupid can the M$ operating system be? Is there a way to release a email version that DOESN'T execute attachments?

Noooooo! The whole world has to live in Bill Gates ass!

How can you guys live with the stench?

[DallasMike]

Nice of them to spell it out. Too bad they don't mention alternatives to the virus-prone pit that is windows.

If 95% of the world used Linux, there would be people pushing alternatives and complaining that Linux is a virus-prone pit.

As someone posted the other day, most of the excitement over Linux is driven by a hatred of Microsoft, not by the superiority of Linux. Yes, I use Redhat Linux on one of my machines and like it a lot, but I'm not operating under the false presumption that Linux is an ultra-secure miracle from God. It has its good and its bad points, just like the Windows and Mac OSs.

[TEXOKIE]

bump

[DallasMike]

How can you guys live with the stench?

See my post #8.

[NCjim]

A new Internet virus was spreading fast...

I suppose that the writer really meant to say A new Internet virus was spreading quickly...

Don't you just love the new trend in journalism? The last time I checked, fast is either a noun, verb, or adjective. It is hard as a parent to teach my children to speak properly when they are continually bombarded with incorrectness such as this. I never cease to be amazed at the errors in written assignments that I see coming home from my childrens' teachers, even in a private school, and by the errors I see in emails at work written by high-level executives in the Fortune 100 company where I am employed. It is hard for me to accept that grammar and usage are no longer important.

[Grut]

Mozilla Firebird (browser) and Thunderbird (email) work just like Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, except they work. Highly recommended.

[snooker]

that's funny

Real operating systems don't allow execute privileges unless specifically authorized by the user. So if you download something that is an executable file the user must change the file permissions to allow it to execute. Probably too complicated for the average windows user. But saves a lot of time rebuilding your system after infection with a virus.

After my wife's system was hit three times I switched her to SUSE. Happy camper ever since. No fear from the junk email and viruses thrown her way. Her LINUX system just does not allow anything downloaded to execute, email or otherwise.

... and the free games are cool and keep her busy.

[Land of the Free 04]

How stupid can the M$ operating system be? Is there a way to release a email version that DOESN'T execute attachments?

The software doesn't execute the attachment---the morons using it do. PBKAC.

[Bluntpoint]

So you infer that we are all stupid or did I imply most wrongly?

[Bluntpoint]

... and the free games are cool and keep her busy.

Good wifey! Good girl! Sit!

[NCjim]

I think that you implied most wrongly.

It is my opinion that those who write or speak for public consumption should make sure that they set a good example of usage and grammar, since learning by example is what we consciously or unconsciously end up doing.

[apackof2]

Good wifey! Good girl! Sit!

Ditto on that, will you allow your wife to read your post?

[Bluntpoint]

Public consumption is just plain wrong!

I think consumption should just be between two married persons. A man and a women.

In the privacy of their bedroom, after the wedding reception.

A man and a women do not become one in marriage until they have comsumpated their relationship.

[BSunday]

If the accompanying attachment is executed

Only a complete moron would open anything without knowing for a fact what it is.