From: "Paul Ranson" 

Geo.

What the hacker dude posted are not virus, trojan, or anything else you
care to call them.

FWIW his competence level can be estimated as 'low' because it took him
some hours to work out how to write an elementary shell script.

Paul

"Geo"  wrote in message
news:42f81027{at}w3.nls.net... virus are programs.

As for latching onto things, so those default install settings never came
back to bite MS in the ass, why did they change so many of them in xpsp2?

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