WARNING! VIRUS!

[Hairy Harry]

BTW: You have defamed AMERICANS in your last post.
Since you have done so in electronic medium (re. text)
we must sue you for LIBEL !

Prepare to have YOUR lawyers meet OUR lawyers...

(and we have MORE lawyers than you do !!!)

<lol>

H^)  harry


>From: "Fraser, Colin J" <colin.fraser at calanais.com>
>To: "'Glen'" <mclilith at ezwv.com>, Theo <t.hogers at home.nl>
>CC: synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl
>Subject: RE: WARNING! VIRUS!
>Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 16:24:56 -0000
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Glen [mailto:mclilith at ezwv.com]
> > Sent: 14 November 2000 15:11
> > To: Theo
> > Cc: synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl
> > Subject: Re: WARNING! VIRUS!
> >
> > I tried this also, but Windows Explorer *still* insists on hiding the
> > ".shs" extension!
> >
> > It just makes a person wonder *what else* does Windows (and
> > Microsoft) hide
> > from us?
>
>Perhaps if you went to the microsoft knowledge base (
>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/c.asp ) and did a search on 'shs extension'
>you would find the articles explaining the internal use windows explorer
>makes of this extension, and detailing the security fix provided for 
>Outlook
>when it was discovered that it caused a security vulnerability that could 
>be
>exploited by virus writers.
>
>Not exactly hidden is it ?
>
>If you want to use the world's most popular desktop OS, you have to expect
>that it will also be the virus writers most popular desktop OS.
>
>If you're going to use any OS on the internet, than you need to keep up to
>date with viruses and potential attacks, and make sure you're using
>protection software for both.
>I run Norton Personal Firewall on my PC, and I see scans against my PC for
>Back Orifice or other trojans a couple of times every day.
>Viruses are the least of my worries.
>If you ain't running virus software, than I have to assume you ain't 
>running
>a firewall.
>It would take me 5 minutes to mail you an exe that will upload a trojan to
>your PC, connect back to my server and start reading your hard disk.
>
>The responsibilty for safe use of your PC lies with you, not MS.
>Unless you're american, then if you crash your car, shoot your wife or get
>cancer from smoking you get to sue the manufacturer.
>
>And this has nothing to do with synth-diy...
>
>Colin f
>

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