Unintelligent criticism is worse than no criticism
Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 11, 2006 10:19 PM
When a user downloads the "virus", inserts it into a directory with files in it, and executes it, it may infect files. Hmmm. I come over to your house, where you are asleep, having taken sleeping pills, I place a pistol in your hand, insert your finger into the trigger guard, and pull your finger back, BANG!, your partner is dead. You're a murderer? No.
Those virii on floppies, before worms, spread sporadically through social mechanisms and laziness on the part of users; i.e., sharing programs on floppies, and not removing floppies from the system, or setting the bios to skip the floppy boot. Virii did not generate the motive force that caused them to move, rather they hitchhiked with something else that moved around. The motive force that is going to cause a proof of concept virus to move is downloading for curiosity's sake.
Unless it has some ability that makes its transmission difficult to PREVENT, it is not actually infectious. I might be able to give you cancer with a properly executed medical procedure, but I can't give you cancer with even the most intimate physical contact, therefore cancer is not infectious.
Geek Unorthodox
PS Dont read to much into the cancer thing. It is an *analogy*, and therefore not identical in all aspects to the subject I am attempting to explain.
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Unintelligent criticism is worse than no criticism
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 11, 2006 10:19 PMThose virii on floppies, before worms, spread sporadically through social mechanisms and laziness on the part of users; i.e., sharing programs on floppies, and not removing floppies from the system, or setting the bios to skip the floppy boot. Virii did not generate the motive force that caused them to move, rather they hitchhiked with something else that moved around. The motive force that is going to cause a proof of concept virus to move is downloading for curiosity's sake.
Unless it has some ability that makes its transmission difficult to PREVENT, it is not actually infectious. I might be able to give you cancer with a properly executed medical procedure, but I can't give you cancer with even the most intimate physical contact, therefore cancer is not infectious.
Geek Unorthodox
PS Dont read to much into the cancer thing. It is an *analogy*, and therefore not identical in all aspects to the subject I am attempting to explain.
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