Re: OT Virus Warning-Dennis

From: Glenn Simmons <glsimmon@swbell.net>



Slc.Dennis Bishop wrote:

> From: starlord@ptw.com (Slc.Dennis Bishop)
>
> >From: Glenn Simmons <glsimmon@swbell.net>
> >
> >If you receive mail from someone offering : WIN A HOLIDAY, don't open
> >it!  It will destroy everything on your hard drive.  I just received
> >this VIRUS warning from a friend in Canada via Australia.
> >
> >Glenn
> >>
>  HaHaHaHa!!! That's about the biggest of the FAKE jokes of the
>  last few years. Who ever stated it is sitting back enjoying all
>  the worry over something thats totaly 100% fake!
>
>  Plus, even if it was real, it still could NOT hurt my totaly
>  awesome machine!!!
>
>  Reson 9,999 for owning an Atari TT/030 IBM/Mac Virus can't hurt
>  our machines.
>
>  Reson 10,000 for owning an Atari ... Operationg System is 100%
>  SAFE from Virus ... OS is in ROM chips.
>
>  Now if we could only make our Iris as safe!
>
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After reading John's message there is nothing like feeling like an idiot!
:)  Now I must thank you for the good laugh also Dennis!  :)  I have never
heard of "fake" viruses before, this is a new one on me.

Dennis, I have 4 Amigas besides the IBM's.  The Amigas also have their
operating system on ROM's and I have had a virus on them in the past so that
is no protection.  Do you have a hard drive on your Atari?  How about a
floppy drive?  Or maybe a modem?  I'm not trying to worry you Dennis but the
ROM is no protection.  If you ever share floppies with someone or download
anything you may get something you don't want.  I have a few hundred
floppies for my Amigas and I had to go through each one, examine it and
clean it if it had the virus on it.  I never did find out which floppy the
virus came in on but the virus would store itself in RAM and infect every
floppy I inserted.  I found out about the virus when one of my floppies quit
working properly.  Enough with the story, point made.  I like my Amigas too
Dennis and they can outperform the IBM's in many ways even as old as they
are but they can still get sick!

Glenn

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Glenn & Linda Simmons
Springfield, Southwest Missouri, USDA Zone 6
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