[Info-vax] "Shanghai Stock Exchange" and OpenVMS

[JF Mezei]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:

> You can safely plug them in and turn them on.  It's when you connect 
> them to a network that you have to worry about "electronic organisms" 
> infecting your Windows systems.

This week's virus can be transmitted when you plug in an USB key.

Sony managed to infect Windows machines when the user inserted a MUSIC
CD into the machines (that rootkit thing).

So leaving a Windows box unconnected to a network is not a garantee that
 it won't be infected.