[arachne] Re: illegal attachments?

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Jason,
              From reading your reply I can see
you don't care if your power supply burns 
up because the fan stopped working while
you were making coffee.  You would rather
have the coffee than your power supply.
You will just go buy a new one. That's 
your option, but it seems a foolish way
to operate to me.

I also caught a virus from a floppy disk my
good friend gave me way back when AV
software wasn't the norm.  The virus came
from a renowned hospital's computer
system and they were not aware of it. 
They were informed about the virus because
I was watching my boot sequence and saw
the  virus load.  Evidently you don't seem to
realize that viruses, especially boot viruses,
like to give you a little message saying,
"You've just been screwed" as they infect
your HDD.

I also listen to my car engine when I start it so
I can identify any strange sounds and I walk
around my car before I start it and I check
the tires to see if they are going flat and I look
under my car to see if any brake fluid or oil or
antifreeze is leaking on the ground.  I like to do
all that before I get on the expressway.

BTW,    I probably drink 10 times as much coffee
as you do and I'm usually doing it while I watch
my computer boot. I drink 10 times as much coffee
as anyone else I know. I always have a coffee cup
filled with coffee in my hand.  

So,  watching my computer boot doesn't detract
from my coffee drinking.  :-}}}

Oh,    And I don't have to balance my check book
at the end of the month because I monitor my accounts
by telephone and Internet on an almost daily basis.
I catch any abnormalities before I ever get my 
monthly bank statement.
    And most of my checks I write for a whole dollar
amount so I can pretty much ignore the cents column.

Eric 

On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:56:01 -0500 Jason <jasorn@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> 
> Eric S. Emerson wrote:
> > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> >
> > 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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