Re: A Linux Newbie's Main Issue With Linux

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 01:24:04PM +0800, Renan G. Galang wrote:
> > Let me point this out first. I'm a very satisfied user of SuSE (8.2). And
> all
> > the annoyances with Linux mean nothing to me if I compare it with my
> friend's
> > M$ XP. He spend the whole weekend to get rid of that Blaster virus!!!!!!!!
> 
> -- huh? that long? you only have to kill the blast.exe process and delete it
> from the
> drive -- that's it. install the patch, don't install the patch (activate the
> firewall though) --
> doesn't matter. just delete the file...

Offtopic, but doesn't Blast install a backdoor into the system?

In that case it's best to backup any data on C:, fdisk and reinstall windows,
because you don't know _what_ other kinds of nastiness might have got in.
-- 
Robin