In comp.os.linux.advocacy, [H]omer
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on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:43:19 +0000
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> Verily I say unto thee, that The Ghost In The Machine spake thusly:
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>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7183008.stm
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> Remember the good ol' days of Amiga boot sector viruses, Ghost?
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamer_Exterminator_(computer_virus)
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> Some things never change, it seems, on closed source systems at least.
>
I think my Amiga (A1000 at the time; I've since traded
it in for a 2000, but I'm a little sorry I did now)
got infected exactly once, at a trade show way way back.
Since it had no hard drive it wasn't that much of a worry
-- and my coax network side's not working all that well
anyway. If I were in the mood (and had funds) I would
want new NICs for my Amiga side to plug into my switch.
Nowadays, a bootsector virus could get interesting, as it
can use the Internet to propagate. At least with Linux it
would have to compromise root to rewrite the boot sector,
on a properly secured system.
But ah, those were the days, when men were real men, women
were real women, and the Amiga was a real computer. :-)
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