- New virus?

[Timothy Payne]

Take a pill Tom, they have a 90% + market share.  I need use windoze too
( between reboots )  How may people have dual boot machines on this
list?

T

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 15:55, Tom Diehl wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Mark Haney wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 16:59, Si Jones wrote:
> > 
> > > With you saying the file is sndmon32.exe, it seems like a windows
> > > program and without trying to be funny but this is a Fedora Linux list.
> > > 
> > > I give up windows a while ago and don't really care what virus's are
> > > speading on that platform!!!
> > > 
> > > So sorry to be negative but I think you will find that everyone else
> > > won't care either!
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > Simon Jones
> > Actually, I fully expected to get at least one of these, from the list. 
> > And here's my stock answer.  Yes, I am well aware it's a linux list. 
> > I'm also well aware that _some_ people don't give a rat's hiney what
> > happens in the Windows world.  HOWEVER, there are a lot (and I'm one of
> > them) network and system administrators who use linux at work (ditto) as
> > well as maintain a network of tens if not hundreds of Windows boxes. 
> > This is kind of like saying, I'm left handed and if I get gangrene in my
> > right hand who cares?  It's not my left and I only use my left.
> 
> Well here is another one. This kind of crap has no place on a linux list.
> Like a lot of people I make a lot of money supporting both windoze and linux
> but I do not need the constant flood of off topic posts to keep me up to date
> about stupid windoze viruses. I have other much better and more reliable ways
> to find out about such things when I am interested.
> 
> > And if you don't really care what happens in the Windows world and don't
> > have anything useful to add to my question, then don't reply to it.  
> 
> It IS OFF TOPIC for this or any other linux related list. Why do you feel
> it is correct to to post something like this here. Didn't you read the message
> you got when you subscribed to this list about what this list was for? What
> part of that don't you understand??
> 
> The point you seem to be missing is that THIS IS A LIST FOR THE DISCUSSION OF
> FEDORA. NOT WINDOZE!!
> 
> Don't try to defend what you did. There is no defense. You were wrong and
> actually for that matter so am I for even responding. As a result this is my
> 1 and only post on the subject. I did it just so you know that Simon Jones
> is not the only one who hates off topic posts. Especially Ot posts about
> windoze!!
> 
> Tom
>