So!  It is you that has not been practicing "safe discing"!  I wondered 
what sort of evil dooer might have exposed me to all those virus 
infected emails getting snagged in my various prophylactic programs.

I'd like to encourage you to stay with Windoze.  The biggest 
inconvenience these viruses cause me is that I have to download patches 
and burn cd's for friends with disabled windoze machines.  Its nice 
that there is so much talent on your side of the platform divide.

-jc


On May 14, 2004, at 7:55 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Dear corresponents of the past couple of weeks,
>  
> George down at The Mall, my personal computer genius,  tells me that 
> my computer had the Sasser  Worm, and that it ate everything up.
>  
> The worm must've gotten in sometime before about noon on Sat 5/8, 
> which is when I took it to him; I was not aware of anything wrong 
> before that, and in fact all appeared OK until George took off Norton 
> AV 2003 in preparation for installing Norton 2004.  He thinks that 
> removing the old Norton let the worm loose, and is not sure whether it 
> is and/or was in the hard drive or the memory, or both.
>  
> So be careful.  And back everything up.  And keep your Norton up to 
> date.
>  
> A woid to da wise.
>  
> Ralph