<tid>Linux virus ??

[Tom Wilson]

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 10:24, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 15:13, Tom Wilson wrote:
> 
> > It's a grand experiment of what actually happens when one types either
> > rm -rf / or format c:\ 
> > 
> > Kinda humorous.  
> 
> I think the format c:\ 'joke' is less a joke for the Windows OS that
> were around when the joke started: Windows 98 and earlier. I think the
> results would have been different. Windows XP, where the guy did his
> comparison, is supposed to be better in this way, no? But non-NT based
> Windows versions are probably going to do what the joke implies.
> 
> But, still an interesting demo. 

I had thought the same thing.  I was kinda wondering why he didn't use a
95/98 machine to do the tests on to get the "true" effect of a format
c:\.  Considering that a large chunk of windoze lusers are still running
98 or 95.  


Tom Wilson 
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