Re: Off Topic-- Windows only viruses, and a US based school

[David Woodhouse]

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>  Viruses.

cf. http://www.perl.com/language/misc/virus.html

> Dumb idea. Better idea: don't use vulnerable file formats. Almost all
> Microsoft document formats can contain executable code. Don't run code
> from untrusted source, verified by a digital signature. Strip
> executable attachements on your mailserver, if you have vulnerable
> systems on the other side of the firewall. 

Nah, just fire anyone who accepts such formats for negligence. Nobody 
nowadays can claim they didn't know the dangers.

cf. http://www.infradead.org//fileexchange.html

'course, the most annoying thing is the long threads that they trigger about
the menace of viruses :)

ObGrub: Did Ilguiz' DiskOnChip patch get merged?

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