vintage computers and lead poisoning?

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 10:35:49PM -0400, der Mouse wrote: Worms propagate specifically by travelling over networks. Viruses (not 'virii' - learn Latin to know why) can use a network to get from machine to machine, but they require some level, however minimal, of human assistance to load. If I am running a machine with an IIS vulnerability or a sendmail vulnerability or whatever, listening to some port on the 'net, a worm can exploit it without me even being near the machine. The same machine can be sent a million copies of a "virus" by e-mail, but until I open these files with a vulnerable app (Outlook, etc.), my machine is not running any of the malicious code (i.e., infected). Viruses use to spread primarily through infected files by booting infected disks. Those are not worms. The lines can be blurry, especially when you inject additional risks like trojan horses, but those are, essentially, the salient distinctions. -ethan -- Ethan Dicks, A-130-S Current South Pole Weather at 05-Jun-2004 02:40 Z South Pole Station PSC 468 Box 400 Temp -82.7 F (-63.7 C) Windchill -124.9 F (-87.2 C) APO AP 96598 Wind 12.7 kts Grid 118 Barometer 663.6 mb (11249. ft) Ethan.Dicks(a)amanda.spole.gov http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html