Hello, Donald.

Thursday September 17 2009 at 06:05, you wrote to me:

 DT> their customers.  So they won't accept any email messages of any kind
 DT> that have an EXE file attached.  Either an outright attachment, or
 DT> inside any kind of compressed file archive.

Yeah they will-just don't send the raw EXE or in a ZIP file.  Google is too
damn retarded to look for everything, so if you send it in a RAR archive,
it will go through the system just fine...or just rename the EXE file to
not have an EXE extension.

 DT> Norton Internet Security 2009 now says that winrar390.exe contains a

That's your first problem-Norton is a POS.  I used to charge $55 an hour to
remove Norton Security, Antivirus, et al. from people's systems because
it's so bad.  I don't know if they've fixed it, but it used to require not
one, but THREE, small programs to uninstall and patch Windows after
uninstalling Norton-Norton would get so tangled up that it couldn't
uninstall itself!

I'd use Avast! or something for antivirus.  I've got dual firewalls on my
LAN (both hardware), so I don't use a software firewall on my Windows
machine.

 DT> very nasty virus.  So it won't allow the winrar executable on my
 DT> system at all as a result.  This may have something to do with that
 DT> trojan horse virus that is slipping into applications made with
 DT> Delphi.  Just thought I would mention that stuff in case others aren't
 DT> aware of the two issues.   Its been years since Pkware released
 DT> anything whatsoever.  Winzip is kept up-to-date often, but Pkware
 DT> appears to have stopped developing their programs completely.

I have never had a virus on any Windows system I've owned in well over 15
years.  Prudent hardening of the Windows OS and common sense seems to have
trumped any little critters on my system-that and I know where I'm going to
download stuff.   That is an amazing fact with most Windows
users-they just don't pay attention to files and install everything free
they can on it. That's why I get called to unfu*k their systems at $60 an
hour (I do it on the side these days).

 DT> Its also annoying that companies like Pkware still charge a lot of
 DT> money for dos versions of programs.   Or that in some cases, the
 DT> registrations that you buy are only good for a single year.  I would
 DT> imagine that irritates the heck out of those company's customers.

No, because most people have to play keeping up with the Joneses and use
every buggy piece of software Microsoft releases to force you into their
line of thinking.

 DT> Am I mistaken, or is BBS Carnival the only BBS related echo that
 DT> stillis in continual usage?  It seems like other echos like
 DT> BBS_Doors, DOorgames have just died.  What's the story behind that
 DT> situation?

BBS_DOORS has been dead for many a year and I handed off the moderatorship
of DOORGAMES to Ben Ritchey.  Many of the people who hung out in DOORGAMES
are no longer involved with BBSing (at least directly).

Later,
Sean

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