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Subject: Re: Fritz 8

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 08:06:59 11/24/02

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On November 23, 2002 at 21:11:00, Michael P. Nance Sr. wrote:

>marc,while playing several times on line my anti-virus did alert me to something
>been sent to me .this could have been what your talking about.my anti-virus's
>firewall detected and destroyed it before it could do any damage.i have had a
>program dis-abled as you described.a wipe of the program and re-install was the
>only fix.after this happen to me once thats why i bought the anti-virus.but
>there are player out there that do do that.>>>>mike


Whenever I have played or observed chess on an Internet server, I have always
felt completely safe.  Maybe that is a false sense of security?

Are any Internet servers unsafe???

Would it be possible for someone to deliberately "sabotage" a chess server so
that it would put viruses on the server's customer's computers?

I believe this is a serious and legitimate concern.

If the answer is "No, that's impossible," then I will feel better, but there
will always be those doubts.

Bob D.



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