[clue-tech] Viruses, Trojan Horses

[grant]

My nasty little thing simply displays the email addresses of those you
communicate with.  It would be POSSIBLE to use this to send people mail,
if they were dumb enough to run it.  This is a worm because it spreads
across a network, and a trojan horse because the user has to be dum enough
to run it.  The point is that most of the damage from the original Love
Bug was from overloaded mailservers, not the files it deleted.  This has
the same potential.  

Viruses are basically not an issue, but trojan horses always are.  You
could always run something and wipe out your entire home directory.  Since
you keep important things there, that would be bad.  

So..... The only real protecttion is backups.

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