Xref: utzoo news.groups:4766 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:477 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!udel!rochester!ur-tut!hwfe From: hwfe@ur-tut (Harlan Feinstein) Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: What to do about binaries Message-ID: <2224@ur-tut.UUCP> Date: 27 Jun 88 09:48:34 GMT References: <6010@megaron.arizona.edu> Reply-To: hwfe@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Harlan Feinstein) Followup-To: news.groups Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center Lines: 27 In article <6010@megaron.arizona.edu> gudeman@arizona.edu (David Gudeman) writes: >In article <1128@csccat.UUCP> loci@csccat.UUCP (Chuck Brunow) writes: >] SHAREWARE has carried the dreaded disk disease, the virus, into >] the world on at least one occasion that is known. >Any binaries or sources can carry viruses. If you don't believe that >a source can carry a virus, maybe I ought to prove it to you... >] There is no >] positive way to protest against such nasties as trojans and >] virii except to ban binary executables. >Or, we could take the totally unexpected tact of letting users make up >their own minds what sort of risks they want to take. Chuck, I'll admit that I'm pretty inexperienced in flaming, but here goes: The points in your article <1128@csccat.UUCP> are some of the dumbest I've heard in a long while. I think that the parts I like best, along with David Gudeman's reactions to them, are the pearls of your article. Why don't we ban computers, since viruses run on computers; I mean, after all, viruses can't do anything when the computer is off (or can they?). Why don't you not use your computer? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ People can get viruses. Boycott humans. Harlan Feinstein U U RRRR hwfeccss@uorvm.bitnet Student, University of Rochester U U RRRR hwfe@tut.cc.rochester.edu "We are... U R!" UUUU R R seismo!rochester!ur-tut!hwfe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------