BL> No... but it *can* be a virus.

> Only if you can get the OS to execute it...

JT> Doesn't even have to be its own OS. Just a bunch of infected
JT> files on a hard drive will do.

JT> Take off one wheel- this is the important part. Leave it parked
JT> outside Bob's place on the footpath for a couple of weeks.
JT> He'll take it in trying to fix it.

JT> The damage would have been done by this stage, he would have
JT> fixed it, looked at the contents, and infect half his machines,
JT> before putting it out again realising that he didn't need a
JT> wheeled PC in the first place. 

 Actually, that cruel attack on my sanity gets right to the heart of
the matter. It's okay to say "Just say no," and cure the world's drug
problems, but people don't work like that. Some of us are human.

 Some of us take in old TV sets, fix them, and throw then out again,
or even open a .DOC file without worrying about the macros. At least
99% of computer users use Microsoft products and upgrade regularly
because everyone knows you can trust big companies.

 I rest my case.

 BTW, I tried to load SuSE Linux on my old 486 computer and it
barfed. For some reason, Linux does not like my hard drive. If
flat-refused to format it, and when I tried to put Linux on the DOS
format (it *can* be done) it barfed again.

 So... now I either try again with Redhat, or cut my losses and buy a
new computer. What's an AMD motherboard worth nowadays?

Regards,
Bob
 

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