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(...) I agree, of course, but as I said it's the guy's job to be paranoid, and he's very good at it. I don't know where he heard about it in the first place, though... Thanks to all who've posted in reply! Dave! (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Darn, and I thought my 191 was a good score :) Adrian -- (URL) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I checked with both Norton's and Network Associates web sites and they both confirmed it is a hoax. From a system administrative point of view, I couldn't be happier that it is. You wouldn't BELIEVE how many of our people are playing that game... My (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I believe virus warnings from TWO places- my sysadmin at work and McAfee's site. I NEVER beleive anything that is "please pass this along to evreyone you know" Almost always a hoax. Chris (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) This is very odd, as they're still there for me. Maybe because I'm in a European (.co.uk) domain when I'm surfing? Mind you, doing all those reverse DNS lookups must be costly. (Added .off-topic.geek for technical discussion, if it (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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A guy I work with, whose job it is to be paranoid about such things, has sent us a red-hot intra-office Email warning us that a goofy little freeware game called "elf bowling" is a virus set to go off on Xmas day. All the usual bells and whistles, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The sysadmin, to be exact. UID 0 is the superuser account, which has auithority to do, essentially, anything. Usually this is called root. It is possible, but very unusual, to have the superuser account as another name instead of root (aka, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) so I know that root is "the Man" on a UNIX system. Chris (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) log onto any UNIX system and go find out what a UID is (it's the unique number assigned to a userid on the system). Then go find out how to display UIDs of various users, and go find out what the UID is for root, and you'll get it. Assuming (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Just sounds like bad English, to me. I also am ignorant. Aaron>maniac@vol.com (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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