Gijs, thats a bit too fast for a virus , i have yet to hear of one that's
light speed . it takes five minutes to erase a harddrive so to rewrite a
harddrive in a flash is not earthly technology. the only way to effect a
system that fast would be to wrap 3 gauge wire all around your computer and
apply about 10,000 volts @ 400 ampsand create a giant magnetic field. that
would work . merry Christmas Gijs. run scan disk, the long version. Mr.,
Ferret
-----Original Message-----
From: Gijs C. Kronenberg <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, December 23, 1999 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: Lubosh Kolouch


>Dear Patty (and others),
>
>Maybe a little alarmist, but what would your reaction be when you receive a
>message from someone you don't know, and the moment you click on it, your
>computer jams 100% (can't even "ctrl-alt-delete") and the only thing left
>to do is shut the power down, restart it and find out that at least one
>program has been damaged?
>
>Furthermore, at this moment virusses are being developed which are no
>longer in need of being attached to an e-mail.
>And weirdo's can hide themselves behind quite a number of aliasses, and
>Lubosh could have been such an alias.
>My only intention was to prevent others from this list to get infected
>(i.e. their computers) by a nasty virus.
>And the next time such a thing happens, I will react in the same way.
>Prevention is better than cure.
>
>Gijs
>
>----------
>> Van: Patty Jansen <[log in to unmask]>
>> Aan: [log in to unmask]
>> Onderwerp: Lubosh Kolouch
>> Datum: woensdag 22 december 1999 10:29
>>
>> Dear Gijs (and others),
>>
>> I think this is highly alarmist and unfair to the poor guy. Lubosh is a
>> shell collector from Czechia and he is not nasty. Other than that he
>> doesn't know how to use mailing lists and sent the same message five
>times
>> (I received them, too) I cannot see anything wrong with his messages. Nor
>> that his system is infected (usually people spread viruses without their
>> knowledge). I just tried and could delete them without problems. As you
>> said, there are no attachments, so what's the worry? He probably just
>wants
>> to wish you a merry christmas
>>
>> Patty
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