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To: Thure Meyer who wrote (23146)	3/30/1999 2:12:00 AM
From: XiaoYao	Respond to of 24154

You don't need to be a mechanic to drive a car, but you need to understand the rules and risk in order to safe drive.

To: Thure Meyer who wrote (23146)	3/30/1999 4:14:00 AM
From: davehicks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

There are two institutions that LOVE Virus scares. 1) The Press 2) Anti-Virus companies These two entities work together for their mutual profit. The media loves virus scares because they are exciting, scary, and sexy. The Anti-Virus companies do everything they can to hype up every new virus in order to scare companies into buying more software. It is in both of their interests to make every virus sound as bad as can be. So this new Macro Virus is getting tons of press this week. Next week it will all be forgotten because the real impact will not be anywhere near as bad as the media is hyping it up. (Does anyone remember Michaelangelo or even the MCI thing last month??) All hype, little damage, lots o'cash for the Papers and (anti)Virus companies.

To: Thure Meyer who wrote (23146)	3/31/1999 6:57:00 AM
From: Thure Meyer	Respond to of 24154

> The Sky Roket name was turned up first in Norway on a computer bulletin board on sex subjects, he said. The online ''suspect'' was further identified by a Global User Identification Number, which is embedded in Microsoft Corp.(Nasdaq:MSFT - news) software. But a Microsoft spokeswoman said, ''We do not currently use that technology, and there is no way to know if that was the person's serial ID or not.''< From todays news: Can someone explain to me how that works? Is this GUIN sent along with every packet when using Microsoft tools? Thure