21 Jul
2009
21 Jul
'09
5:20 p.m.
Sam Mason wrote:
Given that your email comes from a Thunderbird running on a Unix box (or at least it says it's running through an X connection) a better reason would be that you prefer not to use proprietary file formats.
The thing about viruses is that they don't have to infect your machine to propagate. You could have a document with a virus, back it up, delete it from your machine and years later, retrieve it and send it to someone else who's machine it infects. Just like real viruses, computer ones can lie dormant for years, even decades (they haven't been around for centuries yet), and still infect others.
I also dislike using propriety file formats, well, propriety anything and avoid them.
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Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth,
Shawn
Programming is as much about organization and communication
as it is about coding.
Regardless of how small the crowd is, there is always one in
it who has to find out the hard way that the laws of physics
applies to them too.