Urgent... Windows Problem. Is it me or a virus... (rundll32)

[Frank D. Engel, Jr.]

Is Windows a Virus?

  No, Windows is not a virus. Here's what viruses do:

	• 	 They replicate quickly - okay, Windows does that.

	• 	 Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system 
as they do so - okay, Windows does that.

	• 	 Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk - okay, 
Windows does that too.

	• 	 Viruses are usually carried, unknown to the user, along with 
valuable programs and systems. Sigh... Windows does that, too.

	• 	 Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is 
too slow (see 2) and the user will buy new hardware. Yup, that's with 
Windows, too.

  Until now it seems Windows is a virus but there are fundamental 
differences:Viruses are well supported by their authors, are running on 
most systems, their program code is fast, compact and efficient and 
they tend to become more sophisticated as they mature.

  So Windows is not a virus.

  It's a bug.


On Nov 28, 2004, at 10:16 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

> On 11/28/04 3:59 PM, "malte.brill at t-online.de" 
> <malte.brill at t-online.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ken,
>>
>> no calls to external dlls (As far as I know)
>> Strangely the old version of the game now suffers from the same
>> problem. It doesn´t respond to mouseclicks anymore and everything
>> slowed down dramatically. When I open the Taskmanager with the old 
>> game
>> version it doesn´t show up that task. (Only the modified version does
>> and when I force quit the app the tasks are gone...) So I think the 
>> old
>> version *should* work. I played it on the same machine and all was
>> fine. The only thing I changed with the machine was connecting another
>> monitor and updateing the virus killer. (Antivir personal) I guess 
>> this
>> shouldn´t cause any problems.
>>
>> Now I´m stuck. :-(
>
> You might want to remove any adware/spyware that may be on your 
> machine as
> well, along with the virus sweep. I use SpySweeper (www.webroot.com), 
> and
> it's been wonderful at getting rid of the garbage that is automatically
> downloaded from some web sites.
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
> Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
>
>
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Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net>

$ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual
$ true | cat /usr/manual | grep "John 3:16"
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten 
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have 
everlasting life.
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