On Sunday 09 September 2007 16:22, Roger Merchberger wrote:
Why the
worry about never knowing what you're clicking on? If
you're worried about viruses, you're using a computing platform
that's unsuitable for networked applications.
Aren't we all? [[ read: who here actually read the list on their OS/2, VMS,
MVS/XA, etc. machines? IINM, there are a few viruses for MacOS, Linux &
friends... and at least a proof-of concept boot-sector virus written in x86
assembly that can infect anything running x86 no matter what OS, I
believe... ]]
Linux here, and I'm not worried about it, but also don't care to waste my
time with following links to I know not what...
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin