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>In my opinion, and for the record, this really is not Ron's fault. While I
>believe that appropriate patches would have prevented this email virus from
>propagating from Ron's PC, I believe that he had good reason to believe that
>his PC was safe.
>

Wha????

NOBODY has good reason to believe their PC is safe. Unless they keep it
in a locked room with no wire going in to it but a mains cable, and all
its ports welded shut :-(

Ron's virus sailed straight through my up-to-date Norton virus checker
(probably because nobody told Peter N this stuff could arrive via Usenet
too).

Maybe NAV would have caught it if I'd opened it, but I wasn't about to
find out. It's the way of the world that new viruses arrive before their
antidotes do.

Maybe NAV's heuristic checker would have found it anyway; but my manual
one (me) spotted it. It looked like a virus exploit, and it smelled like
a virus exploit.....




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