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Re: [Asrg] Re: Viruses

Steven F Siirila <sfs@tc.umn.edu> Tue, 24 June 2003 19:08 UTC

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From: Steven F Siirila <sfs@tc.umn.edu>
To: wayne <wayne@midwestcs.com>
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Subject: Re: [Asrg] Re: Viruses
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References: <B0000024222@nts1.terabites.com> <200306241826.h5OIQPOs027704@calcite.rhyolite.com> <x4llvrxqil.fsf@footbone.midwestcs.com>
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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:07:03 -0500

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:46:26PM -0500, wayne wrote:
> In <200306241826.h5OIQPOs027704@calcite.rhyolite.com> Vernon Schryver <vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com> writes:
> 
> >> From: gep2@terabites.com
> >
> >> ...
> >> Any computer on which software can be installed could theoretically have BAD 
> >> software installed. 
> >
> > What major operating systems are configured by default to install
> > software from distant servers unknown to a computer system's owners?
> 
> Debian Linux does.  Oh, wait, you said "major OSes".  Nevermind!

Apparently ASUS Display Drivers for Windows XP!  I traced an FTP session
from my computer to Taiwan at the precise time I was installing those drivers.
(This was a freshly-installed Windows XP behind both a hardware and software
firewall, in case you think the system was compromised.)

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