From: Allan J. Ballard (aballard_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 18:16:33 EDT
I sure miss OS/2.
Do you know if anybody sells a CD with all the fixpaks, drivers,
etc on it so an install would not require a bunch of sleuthing?
My Warp pc never went down - until the hard drive failed. Yikes.
NT is ok, but it does lock now and again. Right now the desktop
icons are glued in place. No idea how that happened or how to
unglue them.
Never had a virus on an OS/2 machine; never heard of one either.
I always thought the bad guys were too busy to fool with it. That is
an industrial strength OS, for sure.
Allan
(sorry to meander off topic)
----- Original Message -----
From: <letoured_at_together.net>
To: "ThinkPad Mail List" <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 7:44 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] Viruses under OS/2
> 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.
>
>
> <snip>
>
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