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["國產 Wei-Yee Chan (Made in Chinar)"]

Well, it happens to Windows machines, but there're no Mac equivalents.

I agree with U on the virus-scanner part.  I've encountered way too many
cases of NAV not being able to detect a virus even when it's present. 
I'm using AVG antivirus now, which does a good job of picking up viruses
that NAV can't.

I've never encountered a case whereby a system has been compromised (at
least not that I know of), so I've never had to make the tough choice of
whether to reinstall the OS or not.  But I'll tell U all what I chose if
that ever happens.  ;-)


David Aikema wrote:

>Think about all of these viruses being spread through Microsoft
>Outlook ... no superuser access would be required for one of those to
>propogate.  This may be caused by poor accounting for security on
>Microsoft's behalf, but it does demonstrate that a significant amount
>of damage can be caused without actually needing superuser access.
>  
>
>Precisely... and after being compromised I wouldn't trust it to be
>"intact". Perhaps I'm slightly paranoid, but I wouldn't trust a
>virus-scanner to pickup everything.
>
>David
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