Hi Rick,
SC> Aha!  And exactly why don't you think giving it to someone else
SC> saying "This is a virus, check it out" _couldn't_ be construed as
SC> "negligence"?
SC>
SC> What is "negligence" (in a legal sense) anyway?  Well, it's allowing
SC> something to happen when that something could be "foreseen" by your
SC> average everyday Joe, that "something" causing damage to a third
SC> party.  It certainly can be "foreseen" that spreading virus code for
SC> people to "check it out" might result in the spread of that virus,
SC> with attendant damage.  So, "negligence".
Umm...to tell the truth I really don't know.  The legal profession gets to 
hazy on this stuff. Maybe it's all in the intention.  But that doesn't really 
work either, because people could give each other harmless viruses, and then 
one day one is defective and crashes computers... "I didn't mean to do any 
harm, your honour!".
This is why I just hate the whole legal profession...also because I don't 
understand it, and it's so slow.
Steve
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