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

[Johnny Billquist]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <lqZdl.5901$U5.52829 at newsb.telia.net>,
> 	Jan-Erik Söderholm   <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>>                                                           If he
>> could do that, he could probably also write anything he liked
>> to the PC.
> 
> Any decent AV software will stop that as will preventing "Auto-execute"
> as mentioned above.  Hint:  if you stick in the driver disk for some
> whiz-bang device you bought and it starts the install process all by
> itself, your PC is mis-configured.

Well. A PC is then mis-configured by default at delivery. And you have 
to walk through a few steps before you can disable it. Not to mention 
that a lot of people don't even know about this.
(We really shouldn't say PC, though. This is a Windows thing, and is not 
related to hardware.)

	Johnny

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