Verily I say unto thee, that SomeBloke spake thusly:
> On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:27:36 +0000, Tim Smith wrote:
>> On 2007-11-07, [H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Apparently my NOD32 (anti-virus) and Outpost (firewall) subs
>>> ended about a month ago. I never noticed. Frankly I was just
>>> going to let it rot, but then I did promise Erik that I'd find
>>> something that "impressed me about Windows" by the end of the
>>> Week, so I decided to bite the bullet and protect Microsoft's
>>> Swiss Cheese OS for yet another year.
>>
>> So your anti-virus and firewall were off for a month and you didn't
>> get infected? I thought the COLA position was that running for
>> even a short time without protection would lead to massive malware
>> infections.
>
> He didn't write that there was no protection just that his
> subscription had run out. As you very well know the anti-virus and
> firewall apps do not simply uninstall themselves when this happens,
> they do not download updated virus definitions.
Timmy is not the brightest bulb in the factory, is he.
The /reason/ that I didn't "notice" that my subs had expired, is because
I haven't /used/ Windows during that time, and therefore didn't /see/
the "expired" popups until yesterday.
Perhaps Timmy the rocket scientist would like to explain how one infects
a PC with a virus, whilst that PC is switched *off* (or running Linux).
I know, I know - it's *my* fault for not explicitly stating that to
begin with. Inferences are obviously not one of Timmy's strong points.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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