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A Good Start at Eliminating Virus Attacks Against Your Computer.
fez:
Hello,
I have (unfortunately) been working with computers running windows based operating systems for around 6 years now. Not long, I'll warrant, but long enough to have a reasonable understanding. I have surfed constanty during that time, I have surfed ALL sites, normal everyday sites, information sites, kids sites for my son, music/mp3 sites, warez sites, Illegal sites, Porn sites, you name it, I've surfed it.
I have had a permanent internet connection, my PC is online 24 hours a day. I run No Anti virus software and I have NEVER HAD A VIRUS!!! Wanna know why? Its because Ive figured out that most "viruses" are not in fact "viruses". They are merely scripts that have been written to exploit holes in defective software....... Mainly microsoft outlook and outlook express. It would almost seem that computer Viruses dont even really exist (as such)and that the term "computer virus" is merely a convenient term to cover up a software bug that has been overlooked by microsoft!!!
Most people dont understand viruses and there is this huge paranoia about them, scan this, scan that. I mean lets scrutinise it, we get a CD with a pc magazine and they recommend we scan it for viruses....
Why is that?
Did they write one and put it on the disc for us to run?
Or are we supposed to believe that some file from some program like winzip or photoshop may have suddenly corrupted and became some hiddious file eating monster that will now infect our entire system?...
no .. Folks, if a file corrupted on the disc the program simply would not work! It wouldnt suddenly write itself into a virus program and infect our entire system because viruses do not come from corrupt files, they are codes that are deliberately written BY PEOPLE, to PERFORM SPECIFIC TASKS. and it is a FACT that ordinary files DO NOT CORRUPT AND SUDDENLY BECOME VIRUSES!!!!
Did you know that when you open certain emails or web pages like those in html coding for example, outlook will automatically enter any restricted areas included on the page and automatically run any executable files that are hidden there BY DEFAULT!!! It wont tell you ' oh by the way, this page has a macro or hidden java script that may contain a "virus" do you want me to open it?' It will just open it anyway. And now at last (after around 7 years of fuckups) Microsoft has recently released a patch that will (apparently) eliminate these holes (in IE6). But then, hey, its outlook, so virus writers will soon find and invent ways to exploit more holes. But mr gates has dropped any liability with his invention of viruses so when someone writes a code to exploit his defective software he can just say "Oh, it was a "virus". Now, Is that legal? or is it just that no-one has really analysed the situation before. We just all took it for granted that viruses were part of pc life. Well, maybe we should be rethinking that attitude. It would seem that virus terminology has been invented and nurtured by mr gates and performs a huge financial service for him.
So one very simple answer is DONT RUN OUTLOOK!!!! or anything to do with it. Use a web based email server or any number of non-microsoft mail programs and DONT OPEN ANY FORWARDS OR ANYTHING FROM SOMEONE YOU DONT KNOW ! If freinds of yours get a joke or something they want to send you, tell them to send it as a regular email not as a forward because most 'viruses' forward themselves and you DONT OPEN FORWARDS!!!
I would also like to point out that if you or I bought a car or a house or stereo, blender, chainsaw, toothpick... you name it, ... whatever.... if we bought it and it didnt work, we could take it back to the place of purchase for replacement, repair or refund. Yet if we buy an item of software and it dosent work and we lose all our work of years, our business or our life because of it, the company is not liable??? How does that work?
How come these companies are BY LAW allowed to release buggy software and are not held liable for it? Is it because computers are so confusing for so many and they just think, oh it must be me or the pc, or is because microsoft has promoted that attitude, and somewhere through it all bill gates somehow learnt to invent terms like "virus" to cover his ass and confuse people. As far as I am concerned he is no more than a criminal. I mean, after the mess we all experience just trying to get a pc to do its tasks, its pretty obvious whats going on.......we are being screwed by a megolmaniacal asshole who, quite obviously has a deal with people in high places so that he can fuck us all and not have to pay.
Now I admit that there other buggy and insecure software releases, not just from microsoft, and that there are many other ways of being hacked, ICQ, etc (notably, mainly all software released by microsoft and its affiliates) but most of them just use that as an entry point and utimately, attack outlook or some other code in Windows and exploit its holes to access your system.
So!! if you dont want to get a 'virus', the solution is real simple, realise that bill gates is a corrupt, incompetent asshole and a REAL 'class A' criminal and DONT INSTALL OR RUN OUTLOOK!!! or anything to do with it....
fez
Master of Reality:
I had windows98 for a long time without running outlook and only using Netscape. I put on Norton and scanned eventually and found only 14 viru (at three different times... 2, 4, and then 8... now i got Linux). I had ZoneAlarm 2.6 and then ZA 3.0 when it came out
choasmaster:
my dad just had a problem with lookout, it took him and me like 2 hours to figure out that outlook had a problem and didn't want to load my moms acount, i was almost to the point of saying "hmmm, never had anything like that happen to me" for when he said "yeah, linux is so great when you have like no sound support on that thinkpad, if a *real* os was installed like windows it would be fine" what i think some people just don't get is its not linux's fault if it can't support a peice of hardware, its the people that made that hardware for not like realesing info on it. though i think that the outlook problem had him confused and pissed, he just accepts that windows sucks and still uses it, becuase he doens't want to learn anything, and worst of all, my internet connection is routed through that peice of trash windows box. one day i think i might get him to try linux, or even stop using that bundled windows trash.
voidmain:
If I were in your position I would run away from home (this is meant to be a joke, standard M$ non-liable disclaimer).
choasmaster:
its the only thing he knows, and he doens't want to learn, maybe i can pull a nostalga trick, cuase even though he didn't know it, he has worked with unix, like booting mainframes and such, its just that that job didn't tell him anything other then do this this and this and its booted and such, i learned a greap tech support tip from him thouhg, when shit breaks, take the teliphone at your office, and take it off the hook so the 200+ people that are calling to harrase you and ask why there terminals aren't worknig and why the machine doesn't work won't bother you. but that was back in the 70's 80's, but i also think he doens't like windows too much, he just doen't want to learn things, but im gonna try, iv been telling him about opensource and stuff, owell, but today with the lookout problem i think i might be able to tell him about how much of the linux os is based on text config files, cuase we got in a discussion of the windows registry and how that could be a problem, he then told that he hates the windows registry. and that in win3.1 there was alot of textbased config files and such. i think i am going to show him XF86Config, /etc/inittab, and maybe some . files in the /home dirs. and maybe what you can do with then, cuase with linux, youre god (tm) well, sorry to rant too long, not enough caffien today
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