20 Nov
2001
20 Nov
'01
1:29 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Ewing [mailto:greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz]
Richard Erlacher <edick(a)idcomm.com>om>:
> Of course, MAC OS may not be so virus friendly,
but I don't know
> about that.
But even then, the virus can't jump *off* the disk
onto a previously
clean system without running something from the disk, and that won't
happen unless you explicitly tell it to. If there's some way for that
to happen on Windows, then Windows is definitely more virus-friendly!
There's at least one worm that takes advantage of a Quicktime feature (why
on earth did they put this in Quicktime?!) that will automatically run some
program on a volume when the volume is mounted. Don't remember the name of
this "feature," but it is akin to the windows "autorun," and just as
bad.
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl
Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'