From: Lee Laniear (laniear_at_attglobal.net)
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 12:20:18 EDT
No problem, I don't want to see a "pissing contest" either so I will declare that you are right and I am wrong;
so we can move on. I have actually found some of the information in this thread useful.
Lee
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 07:44:13 -0400, letoured_at_together.net wrote:
>In <200210150415.AAA26031_at_cs.utk.edu>, on 10/14/02
> at 09:14 PM, "Lee Laniear" <laniear_at_attglobal.net> said:
>
>>Mike,
>
>>Even if it were true that a "Micro$oft" virus couldn't affect an OS/2 system
>>there are, as you know, other viruses (viri) in existence. The instances
>>of OS/2 systems being affected by a viruses is rare but it happens. I know
>>of two people who have had that happen.
>
>
>Jumping in here, and not wanting to start a pissing match but; There was a lot
>of discussion about this a year or so back in a news group -- the only known
>OS2 virus that has ever existed -- was one that was created for test purposes
>-- to prove it could be done. It never escaped the test lab that created it.
>
>Whatever the people you know experienced is something else. I for one would
>want to see proof and hear it from a responsible source, who verified it --
>before I believed it was an OS2 virus.
>
>
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Lee Laniear
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laniear_at_alum.mit.edu
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