[arachne] Re: illegal attachments?

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Eric S. Emerson wrote:

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Hi Jason,
         You prove my point......
THANK YOU !! 
I'm here to please.
I think the interesting point is you're all so geeky, or MS has made you so paranoid, that you consider watching the boot sequence messages to be something everyone should do as a matter of course.
The only virus I've had was a boot virus I got from sticking an infected floppy straight from a yard sale into my non AV protected pc and I wouldn't have caught that even if I were watching because way back then even though I was running win95(I think), I didn't run AV software. That was the last time I ran windows and not some AV software. I soon switched to linux and no AV software again but had I been running AV at the time, the virus would have been caught WITHOUT me watching the boot sequence.
Even so, I consider the time saved up from not watching all the boots to have more than made up from the difference for me reinstalling windows that one time.
My practice in linux is the same as it was with windows: I won't run AV in linux until the first time I get a virus or other baddie. And I'll be getting coffee most of the time my computer is booting... unless of course it doesn't boot. Then I'll try booting again and pay attention to why it won't boot :)
And if the awesomeness that is Linux finally gives me a virus, I'll look for AV software for linux. Not until then. In the meantime I'll be banking time in 1-2 minute increments while I'm making coffee and my machine boots. These days it takes about 30 minutes to install and set up linux so I have time enough to cover a reinstall or 2 banked already.
Worried about loss of data or identiy theft? Nah, I don't put anything I'm paranoid about on my pc and have plenty of backups of files I'd hate to lose for other reasons.
The bottom line is I think you've duly noted paying attention to the type of file extension something has is beyond what the average user wants to do. And there isn't a single average user who won't think you're stone crazy when you suggest to them they need to watch their PCs booting up instead of making coffee.
Then again, I'm not a worrier. To me the phrase, "they don't even watch their boot sequence" is like the phrase "they don't even balance their checkbooks to the penny every month"
Of course they don't. They've been rounding to the nearest dollar for years and have saved hours of time and were getting coffee when you guys were worrying how you got off by $.15. Funny thing is they're only out of balance by 37 cents over many years.
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