Re: MonaRonaDona

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"PD43" <pauld1943@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"M.I.5¾" <no.one@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"PD43" <pauld1943@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"M.I.5¾" <no.one@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


It has frequently been demonstrated that if you connect a PC to the
internet
without a virus checker then the longest it is likely to last before a
virus
invades is around 15 minutes.

Whatta bunch of bullshit.


I can only assume that you believe that the only way malware can get to
your
machine is if you visit a web site that carries that malware (that is
certainly the vein of your postings). Believe me, sunshine, that just
ain't
the case. Although much malware does work that way, an equal or larger
number of species does not. These things can propagate themselves without
any help or assistance from you or I.

You've taken it from "virus" to "malware". Fine. I'll read on.

Malware is a superset of virus.


A few years ago we had the dubious privilege of watching a self
replicating
worm spreading around our network of PCs without any of them looking at
anything on the internet or intranet.

I'm not on a network, bucko.


You said that you surf the internet. The internet is a very large network.
Ergo, you *are* on a network.

It might have been difficult to keep
up except that it actually slowed down probably due to all the network
traffic each copy was generating looking for new uninfected machines to
transfer itself to. It took a couple of hours to do the whole network of
several thousand machines, but it's probably accurate to say that the
infection also spread to other machines and networks conected to the
planetary network.

You're assertion that a "virus" (which you now correctly call a
"worm") can enter my system within 15 minutes of starting - if I don't
have a virus checker operating - is still utter bullshit.

Please yourself sunshine.


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