[plug] Virus

[Harry McNally]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:19:46 +0800 "Stephen Lamont" <Stephen.F.Lamont at eddept.wa.edu.au> wrote:

> Just a shory antecdote. A friend of mine has just recently switch from his
> very stable Linux box of seven years to Windows 2000 "Advanced Server"!! He
> swore that active directory and the new user friendliness of Windows 2000
> was better and more convenient. It was literally up 10 minutes when all the
> network shares, operability and files were corrupted by the aforementioned
> Nimdia (is that how you spell it?) virus. Two days of work later it has
> McAfee grinding away on it.
> Beware the box set!

May I just make the observation that it wouldn't have taken two days to
reload Linux ? I can ? Thanks :-) You know, it wouldn't have taken two
days to reload Linux.

Harry

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