Author: Marc van Hal
Date: 09:56:06 11/24/02
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On November 24, 2002 at 11:06:59, Bob Durrett wrote: >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. Well you must have seen once in a while that someone is spoofing Meaning someone is manipulating the time by sending packages. This is just a worse form of it. Not to mention that many times the same people know when your visiting the chess server. And start doing their tricks again. How big is the change they finds you again when you log in as a guest with a random number on chess server with 100's to 1000's of people If you would be save? Marc
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