Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 02:25:50 11/30/01
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On November 29, 2001 at 16:10:53, Torstein Hall wrote: >On November 29, 2001 at 12:02:51, Sergei Smith wrote: > >>Hey Buddy, don't send me any mails ever again and get me out of your address >>book or even better delete your address book. >>All workstations of my LAN got wormed including those of people that have never >>heard of chess. > >I'm sorry for what happened to you! I was careless and had disabled my virus >protection at the wrong moment.... > >But to clarify some thing. You have never been in my address book, and probably >never will be! But this Virus reads the buffer from your browser and it is not >much I can do about that. Anyway I have removed the virus from my PC and some of >the friends who got infected and have used two long evenings removing viruses, >upgrading virus protections etc. > >And as I have been saying, I am sorry for anyone who got infected because of my >carelessnes. But I'm sorry to say the following also: You would probably have >got infected anyway! This virus is spreading like h...., and if your guard was >down it would of all probability have arrived at your PC anyway. > >Torstein As a Linux user I've no wish to get in to this crap, but he is as much to blame as you in this case. If his machines got "wormed" it's because he wasn't running adequate anti-virus software, just as you weren't. The only difference between you is that you're not blaming anyone else! Andrew
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