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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