-=> Mocking Chris Evans to Gordon Frey <=-
   
 CE> Hey Gord, that's nasty stuff.  I've often wondered how easy it would
 CE> be for the virus lo-lives to put one on a cookie that gets placed on
 CE> your HD as soon as you visit a site.
it would be a pointless act... cookies are never executed...
 CE> I guess it would have to be
 CE> text, so easy to find.  But with PC World advising ppl to disable the
 CE> cookie feature before browsing I'm getting tempted. 
there are other ways... write a 0 byte cookie file to your hard drive
and set the read-only attribute on it... then it can't be overwritten by
new cookies and you should still be able to go to websites that require
cookies...
 CE> And off-topic, I'm getting alot more spam lately, several a day, used
you're personally getting spam? spam is something you find in
newsgroups, it's messages that are sent to many unrelated newsgroups...
maybe you mean you're getting a lot of junk email...
 CE> to be a few per week, and I see more ppl placing such things as
 CE> REMOVE_ME in their e-addresses to throw off the auto spam bots that
 CE> search the newsgroups for addresses.  Do humans seem to mind
 CE> correcting these features before mailing ppl?
it seems to me that adding those things are causing problems elsewhere,
then the junkmailers will be tying up bandwidth sending messages that go
nowhere...
a better way to deal with them is to mail their postmasters and tell
them of the abuse the user in question is guilty of...
(of course i've recently decided to explore the possibility of giving
junkmailers each others addresses so that they wind up collectively mail
bombing each other and learning the error of their ways..)
... in AV, the code the gets control first wins... boot clean!...
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