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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <0005d0dd$0$2088$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
	JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 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.

And all of these exploits can be prevented by proper configuration of
Windows.

bill

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