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Re: CONTEST: Name That Program!
> Unix is a much tougher case - while there have been a couple of viruses,
> they don't spread very well, even when everyone uses the same binary
> formats. B2 helps, of course; B1 configured reasonably should also work.
Most people are very nervous about running binaries on a unix box that
they get off the net, and nobody runs a setuid-to-root binary on their
system unless they paid $$$ for it and got it from a reputable vendor. I
personally only run one binary on my machine that I didn't compile myself
- that's Netscape.
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