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William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> On 06/07/13 04:12, Dale wrote: |
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>> I had a interesting adventure the other day. A friend of mine's son is |
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>> getting ready to go to college. Budget is tight so we went to find a |
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>> used laptop for him. I went into the local puter shop and the techie |
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>> guy there had a interesting statement that makes me think I'm not |
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>> recommending them for computer service to anyone else. While we was |
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>> chatting, he said that Linux is just as prone to getting a virus as |
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>> windoze and so is a Mac. I think my laughing let him know I wasn't |
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>> buying his comment. |
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>> I since did some googling and it seems I am right and he just thought I |
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>> was some know nothing guy he could sell some service too. Anyway, has |
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>> anything changed to make Linux more prone to viruses than it used to |
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>> be? I read a percentage somewhere that said like 99% of viruses are |
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>> windoze only. Is there a indisputable source of information on this? |
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>> Thanks. |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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> food for thought - some years back a member of the local lug picked up |
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> that something was listening on a port that he didn't think should be in |
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> use. Turned out to be an infected windows binary running under wine ... |
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> I presume he had been using wine and this was left running, rather than |
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> self starting. |
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> BillK |
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Well, no Wine here. So that won't happen. Actually, I don't have a |
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copy of windoze here at all. Neither of my two rigs have ever had |
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windoze installed on them at all. |
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BTW, I have been known to open those attachments before. I usually open |
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them with kwrite or something and try to see what is human readable in |
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there. Most is machine language but there is usually a small portion |
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that is human readable. They sent it and I'm nosy that way. lol |
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I'm still trying to figure out what he thought he would accomplish tho. |
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I can't get my head wrapped around that yet. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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