[iBook] Noisy iBook

[Charles Pearce]

On Nov 1, 2005, at 10:28 AM, Pat wrote:

> Charles, how did you learn you  had a virus?

I tried to send a document through our campus email system as an  
attachment and it bounced it. We have a campus site license for  
Norton Anti-virus and I ran it and found about a dozen Word documents  
infected with the same virus that the email system had detected. I've  
heard from Windows people that Norton isn't the best program for  
updating their virii profiles often enough, but then, I'm not a  
Windows person and these MS Word macro viruses have been around for  
quite awhile. I don't tend to worry about the killer viruses that  
infect the Windows world, although they are a plague on our campus.  
Our IT people on occasion have, literally, spent night and day  
running patches to try and get ahead of some of these. I think the  
people who create and disseminate these things should be caught,  
tried, convicted and deprived of computer access for the rest of  
their lives (I've thought much worse thoughts about them, but then,  
I'm trying to practice non-violence.).

Charles (charlesp at ksu.edu)